flea (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *flea*:
NOUN	animal	flea	any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

flea > pronunciation
Sounds	fliy'
Rhymes	ably ... zealously: 1543 rhymes with liy...

English > *flea*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
Member of	Siphonaptera, order Siphonaptera	fleas
Narrower	Pulex irritans	The most common flea attacking humans
	cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis	flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats
	chigoe, chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans	small tropical flea
	dog flea, Ctenocephalides canis	flea that attacks dogs and cats
	sticktight, sticktight flea, Echidnophaga gallinacea	Parasitic on especially the heads of chickens
Broader	ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon	Any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
Broader	insect	small air-breathing arthropod
Spanish	pulga, siphonaptera
Catalan	puça

HyperDic: flea