Lexic.us

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Definition of Fleas

1. flea [n] - See also: flea

Medical Definition of Fleas

1. Parasitic, blood-sucking, wingless insects comprising the order siphonaptera. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleas

Literary usage of Fleas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Plague and fleas.—The Plague Commission (Journal of Hygiene, September, 1906) has made a report on its experiments upon the transmission of plague by fleas, ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"In addition fleas act as intermediate hosts for certain tapeworms (Dipylidium ... Adult fleas succumb to the agents applicable to insects in general. ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"It appears that in the Australian bush fleas are as great a nuisance as they are in some parts of Manitoba. A settler, who had suffered greatly from their ..."

4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1891)
"Into this tube I transferred 178 fleas, and put them in a drawer of my writing desi. The next day being fine, I took them out and placed them in the sun. ..."

5. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The insects of this order, comprising all of the true fleas, ... The fleas are like the mosquitoes, comparatively few in number of species, ..."

6. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"Nearly all fleas have the ability to leap, though the Chigoe fleas, ... In some species of fleas the head is provided with rows of spines (Fig. ..."

7. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"PERFORMING fleas. IN the month of July 185G, I discovered an individual who for twenty years had devoted his life to the intellectual training of fleas. ..."

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