Word.ws English Dictionary

sandflea

sandflea noun: any insect of the species of flying, biting, blood-sucking two-winged flies encountered in sandy areas.

Noun

sandflea (plural sandfleas)

  1. Any insect of the species of flying, biting, blood-sucking two-winged flies encountered in sandy areas.
    Synonyms:
    sandfly, sand fly, no-see-um, no-see-em, noseeum, sand gnat, punkie, punky
  2. One of the Talitridae family of marine amphipod crustaceans.

Synonyms of sandflea

Forms of sandflea

pluralsandfleas

Origin of sandflea

From sand + flea.

Questions about sandflea

What does sandflea mean?
Sandflea means any insect of the species of flying, biting, blood-sucking two-winged flies encountered in sandy areas.
What part of speech is sandflea?
Sandflea is a noun.
What is the plural of sandflea?
The plural of sandflea is sandfleas.

Words near sandflea in the dictionary

  1. sandfish skink
  2. sandfish skinks
  3. sandfishes
  4. sandflat
  5. sandflats
  6. sandflea
  7. sandfleas
  8. sandflies
  9. sandflow
  10. sandflows
  11. sandfly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sandflea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sandflea.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sandflea. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.