flea
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- noun
- /fliː/
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pulga
- My dog has been scratching a lot lately because she has fleas.
- get rid of fleas
- a flea collar
- fleas on pets
It's transmitted by mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, lice and mites.
- It's transmitted by mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, lice and mites.
- I was going to save this, this flea ridden country.
- Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
- So we would later learn that many of the plagues were from a flea.
- You ever seen a flea, one of the smallest insects, Really small, one of the smallest insects but for his height and size.
- What's more important, not having fleas or not smelling like literal poop?
- A Witcher crawling with scruples like a fox pelt with fleas.
- We actually do not have the most genes of any animal that a sand flea has more genes than we do.
- And so he decides to allow the death of rat and the death of fleas to be, you know, going on.
- Then you take the top off and those fleas continue to jump, but they will not jump out because they cannot jump out.
- We're all kind of like junkies sprailed on some sort of flea infested mattress, but we like super drug dripping into our nucleus accumbens.
Examples
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Our group frequents discard district warehouses, flea markets, and garage sales.
Academic text (2011) -
Father caught a flea!
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That weekend, my mama took me to the flea market and gave me five bucks to spend on anything I wanted.
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- I'm getting a flea bath later.
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He probably bought it at a flea market.
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There were four shops, five, no, there were five, then there was the flea market, so there were six places you could buy records, when I first started collecting.
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If your cats have fleas or mites or anything like that, use DE.
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In addition, the vectors' elimination helped prevent the transfer of infected fleas among citizens.
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There is even a fake dog that scratches its fleas when a visitor presses a button.
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At 15, Britain's Sven Svenson claimed the title of youngest flea tamer in the United Kingdom.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A group of small wingless insects like fleas that live on mammals and birds
A group of small insects that bite and live on people and pets
A group of fleas that live on people and pets and can spread disease
A small insect that feeds on the blood of mammals, for example the human flea
A small flea that lives on people and pets and bites their skin
A small insect that lives on cats and dogs and bites them, making them itchy
A small insect that lives on cats and other animals and drinks their blood
A very small insect that lives on dogs and cats and makes them itch
A small insect that sticks tightly to birds' skin and bites them, often on chickens' heads
A small flea that lives on chickens and often attaches to their heads causing irritation
A small flea in tropical areas that burrows under the skin and causes itching or infection
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A small leaf beetle with strong back legs that jumps like a flea and chews small holes in leaves
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A very small fresh water animal with a rounded body that lives in ponds and many fish eat
- South African
A small flea in tropical areas that burrows under the skin and causes itching or infection
A large number of fleas living on an animal that cause itching and can make it sick
- Specialized
A small insect that sticks tightly to birds' skin and bites them, often on chickens' heads
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flea goes back to Old English flēa and is related to the German word Floh, all meaning a 'small jumping insect'. That's why a flea today is the tiny, jumping bug that bites pets and people.