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flea
  • n  any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
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flea beetle
  • n  any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping
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flea bite
  • n  sting inflicted by a flea
  • n  a very minor inconvenience
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flea market
  • n  an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles
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fleabane
  • n  hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
  • n  any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
  • n  common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
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fleawort
  • n  plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
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flecainide
  • n  oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias; increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients
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