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n. (context US English) (sand flea English)
Usage examples of "sand fleas".
Watson was crusted with blood-black sand and blind, with bullet-smashed teeth, nose and lower lip half shot away, black-and-blue face and neck and arms and dead-white farmer's body turning a bad gray-purple around the bullet holes and buckshot rashes, and sand fleas hopping all over the whole mess.
Even dragons, which infest Calimshan like sand fleas, fly clear of Cursrah.
His attention on the sand fleas and small crabs he had exposed was so intense that he was ignoring the waves that were nearly lapping about his feet.
But the rags that clothed him held nothing but salt and sand fleas.
Try to get the sand fleas off as you put on your boots, too-though they don't really matter.
Like these sand fleas and limpets and krill-although these krill in particular are dead, and helping the fleas.
The monsters it warned of turned out to be sand fleas-bugs so small they could hardly even be seen.
Lizards whispered past in the grasses, sand fleas hopped onto his face.
She stank of being unwashed, as no doubt I did too, and her long hair was so full of sand fleas that it might have writhed had it not been so matted.
We might as well have some fun before we go out looking for sand fleas that secrete hydrofluoric acid and menace our colonies.
It was a drab little chip of stone, barely the size of one of the sand fleas which swarmed in the red dust of the camp.