flea (redirected from human fleas)

flea  (fl)

n.

1. Any of various small, wingless, bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera that have legs adapted for jumping and are parasitic on warm-blooded animals.

2. Any of various small crustaceans that resemble or move like fleas, such as the water flea.

Idiom:

a flea in (one's) ear

An annoying hint or a stinging rebuke.

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[Middle English fle, from Old English flah.]

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flea

Noun

1. a small wingless jumping insect feeding on the blood of mammals and birds

2. flea in one's ear Informal a sharp rebuke [Old English flēah]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

flea - any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon - any external parasitic organism (as fleas) insect - small air-breathing arthropod order Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera - fleas Pulex irritans - the most common flea attacking humans Ctenocephalides canis, dog flea - flea that attacks dogs and cats cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis - flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats chigger, chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans - small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea, sticktight - parasitic on especially the heads of chickens

Translations

flea [fliː] n → pulga

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flea [fliː] n → puce f

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flea [fliː] n → Floh m

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flea [fliː] n → pulce f