flea beetle

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   any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping

   Broaderleaf beetle

Questions about flea beetle

What does flea beetle mean?

flea beetle means "any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping".

Is flea beetle a common word?

flea beetle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.