Translingual

Pulex irritans, female, left, and male

Proper noun

Pulex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pulicidae – the human flea, Pulex irritans, and related fleas of cold climates.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Antliophora - clade; Siphonaptera - order; Pulicomorpha - infraorder; Pulicoidea - superfamily; Pulicidae - family; Pulicini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Pulex irritans (species)

Latin

Noun

pūlex m ‎(genitive pūlicis); third declension

1. flea

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• pulex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pulex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• pulex in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray