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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See beach flea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Some animal which hops on the sand (as of the sea-shore), as a beach-flea or sand-skipper; one of the amphipods; a sand-flea. Very numerous species of different genera receive this name, which has no technical or exact meaning. The Gammaridæ are sometimes collectively so called. See cut under
Amphipoda .
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) a beach flea; an orchestian.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
- n. small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
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