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Definitions for FLEA
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Princeton's WordNet
fleanoun
any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FLEAnoun
A small red insect remarkable for its agility in leaping, which sucks the blood of larger animals.
Etymology: flea, Saxon; vloye, Dutch; fleach, Scottish.
While wormwood hath seed, get a handful or twain,
To save against March to make flea to refrain: Where chamber is sweeped, and wormwood is strown,
No flea for his life dare abide to be known. Thomas Tusser, Husband.Fleas breed principally of straw or mats, where there hath been a little moisture. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
A valiant flea, that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. William Shakespeare, Henry V.
To Fleaverb
To clean from fleas.
Etymology: from the noun.
Wikipedia
Flea
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about 3 millimetres (1⁄8 inch) long, are usually brown, and have bodies that are "flattened" sideways or narrow, enabling them to move through their hosts' fur or feathers. They lack wings; their hind legs are extremely well adapted for jumping. Their claws keep them from being dislodged, and their mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. They can leap 50 times their body length, a feat second only to jumps made by another group of insects, the superfamily of froghoppers. Flea larvae are worm-like, with no limbs; they have chewing mouthparts and feed on organic debris left on their hosts' skin. Genetic evidence indicates that fleas are a specialised lineage of parasitic scorpionflies (Mecoptera) sensu lato, most closely related to the family Nannochoristidae. The earliest known fleas lived in the Middle Jurassic; modern-looking forms appeared in the Cenozoic. Fleas probably originated on mammals first and expanded their reach to birds. Each species of flea specializes, more or less, on one species of host: many species of flea never breed on any other host; some are less selective. Some families of fleas are exclusive to a single host group; for example, the Malacopsyllidae are found only on armadillos, the Ischnopsyllidae only on bats, and the Chimaeropsyllidae only on elephant shrews. The oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a vector of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague. The disease was spread to humans by rodents, such as the black rat, which were bitten by infected fleas. Major outbreaks included the Plague of Justinian, about 540, and the Black Death, about 1350, each of which killed a sizeable fraction of the world's people. Fleas appear in human culture in such diverse forms as flea circuses; poems, such as John Donne's erotic "The Flea"; works of music, such as those by Modest Mussorgsky; and a film by Charlie Chaplin.
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flea
A flea is a small, wingless jumping insect that feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. Fleas have hard, flat bodies adapted to move easily through the fur or feathers of their hosts. Many species are known to transmit diseases or parasites to both animals and humans.
Webster Dictionary
Fleaverb
to flay
Fleanoun
an insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix
Etymology: [See Flay.]
Wikidata
Flea
Fleas are the insects forming the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds. Some flea species include: ⁕Cat flea ⁕Dog flea ⁕Human flea ⁕Moorhen flea ⁕Northern rat flea ⁕Oriental rat flea Over 2,000 species have been described worldwide.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Flea
flē, n. a well-known wingless insect of great agility, ectoparasitic on warm-blooded animals.—ns. Flea′-bane, a genus of plants which emit a strong smell said to have the power of driving away fleas; Flea′-bite, the bite of a flea: a small mark caused by the bite: (fig.) a trifle.—adj. Flea′-bit′ten, bitten by fleas: (fig.) mean: having small reddish spots on a lighter ground, of horses.—A flea in one's ear, a caution, rebuff, anything specially irritating. [A.S. fléah; cf. Ger. floh, Dut. vloo.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of FLEA in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of FLEA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of FLEA in a Sentence
A flea and a fly
People who wear costume contacts or colored contacts that they find at the dollar store or the flea market usually end up in my office needing treatment of some kind, i see patients all the time who come in who may wear colored lenses and they talk about how they’re not comfortable and they ca n’t always see well.
Mr. Zarauskas is a sporadically employed New Jersey construction worker who likes to go to flea markets, he was never present when a tusk crossed the border, and we think any suggestion that he knew the tusks were illegal is shaky.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
He had so little money that he bought canvases from flea markets, you know he painted on any canvas he got his hands on, so a bed sheet, or a night shirt, even a tablecloth.
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- аӡAbkhaz
- vlooiAfrikaans
- pulzAragonese
- برغوثArabic
- birəAzerbaijani
- блыха́Belarusian
- бълха́Bulgarian
- উপমক্ষিকাBengali
- puçaCatalan, Valencian
- blechaCzech
- loppeDanish
- Flohmännchen, Flohweibchen, FlohGerman
- dosuEwe
- ψύλλοςGreek
- puloEsperanto
- pulgaSpanish
- kirpEstonian
- arkakusoBasque
- کک, کیکPersian
- kirppuFinnish
- kutuFijian
- loppaFaroese
- puceFrench
- dreancaidIrish
- deargann, deargadScottish Gaelic
- tûngusuGuaraní
- פרעושHebrew
- पिस्सूHindi
- bolhaHungarian
- լուArmenian
- pinjalIndonesian
- pulceInterlingue
- flóIcelandic
- pulceItalian
- ノミ, 蚤Japanese
- რწყილიGeorgian
- бүргеKazakh
- ចៃឆ្កែKhmer
- 벼룩Korean
- kêçKurdish
- бүргөKyrgyz
- pulexLatin
- ໝັດLao
- blusaLithuanian
- blusaLatvian
- parasyMalagasy
- болваMacedonian
- нохой бөөсMongolian
- pinjalMalay
- bergħudMaltese
- အလှေး, လှေးBurmese
- vloDutch
- loppeNorwegian
- yaaʼNavajo, Navaho
- piusaOccitan
- pchłaPolish
- pulgaPortuguese
- pilesch, pülsch, pelesch, pülesch, pelischRomansh
- puriceRomanian
- блоха́Russian
- puighi, pulixi, pulige, pulighe, pulicheSardinian
- bùha, бу̀ва, bùvaSerbo-Croatian
- බලුමැක්කාSinhala, Sinhalese
- blchaSlovak
- bólhaSlovene
- booddoSomali
- pleshtAlbanian
- loppaSwedish
- kirobotoSwahili
- பிளேTamil
- кайкTajik
- หมัดThai
- büreTurkmen
- pulgasTagalog
- pireTurkish
- борчаTatar
- بۈرگەUyghur, Uighur
- блоха́Ukrainian
- پسوUrdu
- burgaUzbek
- con bọ chétVietnamese
- jiflib, flib, hiflibVolapük
- felWolof
- פֿלױYiddish
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