cat flea

1. 1.

   flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats

   SynonymsCtenocephalides felis

   Broaderflea

   Part ofCtenocephalides

Questions about cat flea

What does cat flea mean?

cat flea means "flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats".

What is another word for cat flea?

Close synonyms include Ctenocephalides felis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat flea a common word?

cat flea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.