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Definition of Dog flea
1. Noun. Flea that attacks dogs and cats.
Generic synonyms: Flea
Group relationships: Ctenocephalides, Genus Ctenocephalides
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Flea
Literary usage of Dog flea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The eggs of the cat and dog flea are deposited between the hairs of the infested
animals, but are not fastened to them, so that when the animal moves about ..."
2. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"Most of the fleas that we have found infesting dwelling-houses in the East and
South have been the cat and dog flea. A pet dog or cat is very liable to ..."
3. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"Next in importance to the human flea as a parasite of man is the dog flea,
Ctenocephalus canis, and the closely allied cat flea, C. felis. ..."
4. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and by Walter Jekyll, Alice Werner, C. S. Myers, Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1907)
"No dog-flea a bit me up so, sir ? Me never see place have dog-flea like a you
... When day light Tiger say:—" Me son, me sorry to see dog-flea bit you so ..."
5. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1888)
"Moreover, the dog-flea is adorned with a distinctive collar, a pectinate fringe
on the pro-thorax, the badge, we may suppose, of his order ; and in addition ..."
6. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"With the common cat- and dog-flea the larval life lasts only one or two weeks.
When full grown the larva usually spins a thin silken cocoon within which it ..."
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