American smooth dogfish Mustelus canis | found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
beach flea sand hopper sandhopper sand flea | small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas, common on ocean beaches |
daphnia water flea | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell, moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae |
cyclops water flea | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming, important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms |
Canis genus Canis | type genus of the Canidae: domestic and wild dogs, wolves, jackals |
dog domestic dog Canis familiaris | a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times, occurs in many breeds, the dog barked all night |
timber wolf grey wolf gray wolf Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
white wolf Arctic wolf Canis lupus tundrarum | wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail |
red wolf maned wolf Canis rufus Canis niger | reddish-grey wolf of southwestern North America |
coyote prairie wolf brush wolf Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
jackal Canis aureus | Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog, smaller than a wolf, sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair |
dingo warrigal warragal Canis dingo | wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia |
flea beetle | any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping |
flea | any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap |
Ctenocephalides genus Ctenocephalides | an arthropod genus of fleas |
dog flea Ctenocephalides canis | flea that attacks dogs and cats |
cat flea Ctenocephalides felis | flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats |
chigoe chigger chigoe flea Tunga penetrans | small tropical flea, the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans |
sticktight sticktight flea Echidnophaga gallinacea | parasitic on especially the heads of chickens |
flea bite | a very minor inconvenience |
flea market | an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles |
Canis Major Great Dog | a constellation to the southeast of Orion, contains Sirius |
Canis Minor Little Dog | a constellation to the east of Orion, contains Procyon |
flea bite | sting inflicted by a flea |
creaky decrepit derelict flea-bitten run-down woebegone | worn and broken down by hard use, a creaky shack, a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape, a flea-bitten sofa, a run-down neighborhood, a woebegone old shack |