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from The Century Dictionary.
- An aberrant order of dipterous insects, the fleas and chigoes, degraded by parasitism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See
flea .
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