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Pulicidae

noun

many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals

• Syn: ↑family Pulicidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Siphonaptera, ↑order Siphonaptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑Pulex, ↑genus Pulex, ↑Ctenocephalides, ↑genus Ctenocephalides

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\\pyüˈlisəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Pulic-, Pulex, type genus + -idae

: a large and nearly cosmopolitan family of fleas that includes many of the common fleas attacking man and his domestic animals — see pulex

Useful english dictionary. 2012.