sand flea

Questions about sand flea

What is another word for sand flea?

It depends which sand flea you mean. In the sense “small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches”, the synonyms are beach flea, sand hopper, sandhopper. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sand flea?

WordNet records no antonym for sand flea. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sand flea come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sand flea

• Full entry for sand fleaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sand fleaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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