beach flea
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- small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beachesSynonyms: sand hoppersandhoppersand fleaType of amphipodMember of Orchestia, genus Orchestia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Beach flea
Zoology, the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas.
From the entry Beach.
Beach flea, Black flea
etc. See under Beach, etc.
From the entry Flea.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54