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Significados de sand flea em inglês

Small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches.

A flea of the species Tunga penetrans of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.

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Examples for "beach flea"
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Maybe she could glue shells to the tiles and sell them at the beach flea market.
Happiness key
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Kings Beach Flea Market, Port Elizabeth Friendly City, friendly market.
The South African
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'What coaxed Aemilia Fausta away from the sand hoppers?'
Shadows in Bronze
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It was really cool the way it actually turns stones over, looking for sandhoppers and -what are they called?
The Irish Times
Uso de sand flea em inglês
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That's like a sand flea or something, right .
The incumbent
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What a family of sand fleas I come from!
Number9Dream
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I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
Imprudence
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Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
Rebel island
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There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
The old man and the sea
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Sam envisioned some Bedouin encampment deep in the dunes, a shadeless purgatory among goats and sand fleas.
Layover in dubai
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But if initial tests go well, Newell anticipates ordering "thousands" of Sand Fleas for use overseas.
Wired
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The Sargassum algae releases a pungent smell as it decomposes and even before then contains biting sand fleas.
Reuters
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Sand fleas had survived, too.
Rebel island
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There is a new version of Sand Flea, the amazing 11-pound radio-controlled car that can race and jump over buildings.
Wired
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"Must have been a sand flea, or a water bug."
Out with Gun and Camera; or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains
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That's the elevation achieved by the tiny, jumping Sand Flea robot, which will for the first time be battle-tested in Afghanistan this coming winter.
Wired
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The problem of jigger parasites, female sand fleas that burrow their way under skin, is widespread in the eastern, northern and northeastern parts of Uganda.
Reuters
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Indeed, a single 10-pound Sand Flea can make 30 leaps over obstacles 40-60 times its own height before running out of power.
Wired