Term Gallery logo

Meanings of sand hopper in английском

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

Synonyms
Examples for "beach flea"
Examples for "beach flea"
1
Maybe she could glue shells to the tiles and sell them at the beach flea market.
Happiness key
2
Kings Beach Flea Market, Port Elizabeth Friendly City, friendly market.
The South African
1
It was really cool the way it actually turns stones over, looking for sandhoppers and -what are they called?
The Irish Times
1
That's like a sand flea or something, right .
The incumbent
2
What a family of sand fleas I come from!
Number9Dream
3
I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
Imprudence
4
Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
Rebel island
5
There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
The old man and the sea
Usage of sand hopper in английском
1
'What coaxed Aemilia Fausta away from the sand hoppers?'
Shadows in Bronze