sand flea
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sand flea
n.
1. Any of various small crustaceans living on sandy beaches, such as a beach flea.
2. See chigoe.
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sand flea
n
(Animals) another name for the chigoe1, sand hopper
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beach′ flea`
n.
any of various tiny crustaceans that inhabit beaches and that jump like fleas.
[1835–45, Amer.]
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| Noun | 1. | sand flea - small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beachesamphipod - a kind of malacostracan crustacean genus Orchestia, Orchestia - type genus of the family Orchestiidae |
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sand flea - small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches