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Answer for the clue "Kind of collar ", 4 letters:
flea

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Usage examples of flea.

The ammoniacal fluid was harsh, and smelled strong, but it dissolved oils and grease on her skin and in her hair, and it killed any lice or fleas she might have picked up.

Yes, thought Centaine grimly, Michael has accumulated black marks like a dog picks up fleas, and some of them hop off on to all of us.

Once you snag some fleas in the comb, dip them in a glass of water mixed with rubbing alcohol or detergent and watch the routed buggers sink to the bottom.

The fleas which tormented us made the abbe ask why I did not have the cell swept out.

My fleabites are tiny, the kind of bites you get when you are used to fleas so they don't bother you so much anymore.

On this being remedied I sat down to write, but was soon driven upon the balcony, under the eaves, by myriads of fleas, which hopped out of the mats as sandhoppers do out of the sea sand, and even in the balcony, hopped over my letter.

The yadoya was a very large one, and, as sixty guests had arrived before me, there was no choice of accommodation, and I had to be contented with a room enclosed on all sides not by fusuma but shoji, and with barely room for my bed, bath, and chair, under a fusty green mosquito net which was a perfect nest of fleas.

Her three little boys do not have itchy bums and worms and bites up their arms from fleas.

Metchnikoff saw the wandering cells of the water flea, the phagocytes of this creature, flow towards those perilous needles, surround them, eat them, melt them up, digest them.

And since fleas can spend anywhere from ten to over two hundred days in their larval stage, and from a week to a year in their pupal stage, one pair of adult fleas can produce offspring that could be in your house for as long as two years.

The men doing this work were dressed in tightly wrapped clothing that had been treated with pyrethrum to discourage fleas.

Beth wanted Sooly to marry a rich man who could afford an apartment in New York where Beth could visit, or at least use the home of her daughter as headquarters while shopping in all the strange little stores in that fascinating flea market of a city.

Since then I have learned enough of this and that to do my own bargaining, though Yashoukkim are all over the place like fleas and the Suling Lallers are getting hard to figure.

They ogled the local architecture, toured museums and galleries, browsed or bought in the luxury shops or the cheap flea markets, strolled in the Boboli Gardens, or rode in a vettura to see the view that Boccaccio and Lorenzo de Medici and Shelley and other immortals had seen from the hill of Fiesole.

And the allyl sulphides in the garlic might just make old Rover that much less attractive to fleas - might not do much for his love life though!