A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.
Parasitic, blood-sucking, wingless insects comprising the order Siphonaptera.
af-an-ip't[.e]r-a, n.pl. a small order of insects having but rudimentary scales in place of wings.--adj. APHANIP'TEROUS. [Gr. aphan[=e]s, invisible, pteron, wing.]
[Gr.] (Entom.) Ord. of insects with no perceptible wings, as fleas.