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"FLEAS" is a plural of: flea. |
Date "FLEAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of fleas, indicates that you will be provoked to anger and retaliation by the evil machinations of those close to you. For a woman to dream that fleas bite her, foretells that she will be slandered by pretended friends. To see fleas on her lover, denotes inconstancy. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Parasitic, blood-sucking, wingless insects comprising the order Siphonaptera. (references) |
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Crosswords: FLEAS |
| English words defined with "FLEAS": Aldrovanda vesiculosa ♦ Beach flea, Branchiopoda ♦ class Crustacea, Crustacea, Ctenocephalides ♦ ectoparasite, ectozoa, ectozoon, epizoa, epizoon ♦ family Orchestiidae, family Pulicidae, feabane mullet, fleabane, Flea-beetle ♦ genus Ctenocephalides, genus Cyclops, genus Daphnia ♦ onchocerciasis, Orchestiidae, order Siphonaptera ♦ Pulicaria dysenterica, Pulicene, Pulicidae, Pulicous ♦ river blindness ♦ sand flea, sand hopper, sandhopper, Siphonaptera, subclass Branchiopoda ♦ waterwheel plant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FLEAS": Commonwealth ♦ LIVE STOCK ♦ pestis bubonica ♦ worm infestation. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLEAS": Pennyroyal. (references) |
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Screenplays | I had fleas! (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck) They're fleas on rats! (Grease; writing credit: Bronte Woodard.) I think you've got fleas. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) May the fleas from your cow inflame your Rhubarb! (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting) This'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at five hundred yards, Tannen, and it's pointed straight at your head! (Back to the Future Part III; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Lyrics | Fleas and ticks jump everywhere (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Clever | Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Tongue Twisters | There are free fleas for all the loyal royalty. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Horsefly Fleas (1948) Thundering Fleas (1926) | |
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 | When distinct burrow systems are apparent, fleas can be controlled with a duster using 0.5% permethrin, or other EPA registered insecticidal dust. Such actions are taken when epizootic areas are in close proximity to human populations. Credit: CDC. |  | Treating pets with insecticidal dust to kill fleas that could come into contact with humans can help control the spread of plague bacteria. Credit: CDC. |
 | All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |  | This laboratorian is identifying fleas as one step in the collection of Plague Study data. Credit: CDC. |
 | During the study, scientists would collect fleas inoculated with Y. pestis bacteria in order to observe modes of vector disease transmission. Credit: CDC. |  | This burrowing rodent of the genus Cynomys can harbor fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague. Credit: CDC. |
 | Mortars and pestles used in laboratory preparation of tissues and fleas for triturating prior to inoculation. Credit: CDC. |  | All wood rat species are quick to occupy and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |
 | Long-tailed weasels have been identified as carriers of fleas inoculated with Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium. Credit: CDC. |  | T. lewisi is a sporozoan parasite found in the blood of infected rats, and spread to other rats through the bite of infected rat fleas, Nosopsyllus fasciatus, as vectors. Credit: CDC. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Noyes Westcott | A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. |
George Herbert | He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. |
Logan Pearsall Smith | Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other's fur. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. |
Thomas Fuller | Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Filter water fleas from drinking water. (references) | |
Both male and female fleas can transmit the infection. (references) | ||
A. By the bite of fleas infected with the plague bacteria. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. K.Q. |
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| "FLEAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "FLEAS" is used about 148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.97% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 148 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "FLEAS": water-fleas. | |
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| Language | Translations for "FLEAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Flöhe (bread). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | easflay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FLEAS": befleas, defleas. (additional references) | |
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"FLEAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elfast, Fales, falsas, feabs, feals, feas, feash, felas, felax, fellas, Filteau, flae, flasa, flase, flass, flead, fleae, flean, Flear, flease, fleash, Fleat, fleats, fleav, fleaw, fleax, Fleds, Fleiss, Flessa, flexsql, fleys, flusa, fresa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLEAS" (pronounced flē"z) |
| 4 | f l ē" z | flees. |
| 3 | -l ē" z | displease, enrollees, journalese, Leas, Lees, parolees, pleas, please, sleaze. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alefs, false, leafs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-s" | |
-1 letter: alef, ales, feal, flea, lase, leaf, leas, safe, sale, seal, self. | |
-2 letters: ale, als, efs, elf, els, fas, las, lea, sae, sal, sea, sel. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, as, ef, el, es, fa, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-s" | |
+1 letter: fables, falces, falser, falsie, farles, fellas, festal, flakes, flames, flanes, flares, flaxes, fleams, safely. | |
+2 letters: baffles, befalls, beflags, befleas, defleas, earfuls, easeful, fablers, failles, fallers, falsely, falsest, falsies, falters, fardels, farfels, fatless, favelas, fecials, fellahs, felspar, females, ferulas, fetials, finales, flakers, flambes, flamens, flamers, flanges, flashed, flasher, flashes, flasket, flayers, folates, loafers, raffles, refalls, refusal, safrole, seafowl, snaffle, sulfate, waffles. | |
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