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# flea

«flea» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very small jumping insect without wings that lives on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a flea, fleas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very small jumping insect without wings that lives on the skin and fur of animals and people and sucks their blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#m1)

2) Flea market: a market where people sell old and second-hand things cheaply. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life fleas are a problem for pet cats and dogs: they make them scratch, and pets need flea treatment. In science fleas are parasites — they live on another animal and harm it; they can jump many times their own length. In history, fleas on rats spread the plague (the Black Death). Phrases: flea collar, flea treatment, flea bite, flea market, a flea in your ear (a scolding, British).

### examples

- Our dog kept scratching because it had fleas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x1)
- The vet gave the cat flea treatment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x2)
- A flea can jump more than a hundred times its own length. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x3)
- We bought old comics at the flea market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x4)
- Flea bites leave small itchy red spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x5)
- Fleas are parasites that drink blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x6)
- Long ago, fleas on rats spread a deadly disease called the plague. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/#x7)

### note

Homophone trap: «flea» (insect) and «flee» (to run away from danger) sound the same: The fleas fled? No — people flee from fire; fleas live on dogs.

### In the corpora

- [Hooke's book Micrographia amazed readers with huge drawings of fleas and lice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/7/)
- [A vet gives pets flea treatment, and people vacuum carpets and wash pet beds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/15/)
- [An adult gives the flea and worm treatment the vet suggests, to keep pets and the family free of parasites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/15/)
- [After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.711/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flea» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flea/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.