• "Siphonaptera" is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong): Great...
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    Flea (redirect from Siphonaptera)
    Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds...
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  • mathematician Augustus De Morgan included similar lines in his rhyme Siphonaptera. Look up ad infinitum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mathematical...
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    the brief life of a daily newspaper with that of a mayfly in the satirical poem "The Newspaper" (1785), both being known as "ephemera". Immature mayflies...
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    "Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (1): 93–104. doi:10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00095...
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  • siphonapterology The scientific study of fleas and other insects of the order Siphonaptera. sitiology The study of food, diet, and nutrition; dietetics. sitology...
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    so on to viscosity. [A play on two lines of Augustus De Morgan's poem Siphonaptera, "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, / And...
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    (caddisflies), Siphonaptera (fleas), Mecoptera (scorpionflies) and possibly Strepsiptera (twisted-wing flies). Diptera has been grouped with Siphonaptera and Mecoptera...
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    Hood discusses the myth of earwigs finding shelter in the human ear in the poem "Love Lane" by saying the following: "'Tis vain to talk of hopes and fears...
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    are easy to recognize as non-hemipteran. Similarly, the mouthparts of Siphonaptera, some Diptera and Thysanoptera superficially resemble the rostrum of...
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