insect vs flea

insect and flea both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insect	Yes	No	No	No
flea	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flea is a hyponym of insect; that is, flea is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than insect:

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
flea: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, ephemeron, holometabola, metabola, defoliator, pollinator, gallfly, mecopteran, collembolan, springtail, proturan, telsontail, beetle, web spinner, louse, sucking louse, bird louse, biting louse, louse, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, leaf-miner, leaf miner, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, worker, termite, white ant, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, dictyopterous insect, bug, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, homopteran, homopterous insect, psocopterous insect, ephemerid, ephemeropteran, plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, earwig, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, pupa, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	flea (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

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