حرقوص doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• حُرْقُوصٌ

  حُرْقُوصٌ حرقوص A certain insect, resembling the flea, (S, A, K,) to which, sometimes, there grow two wings, and then it flies; (S;) or, as some say, larger than the flea; (TA;) or like the tick; (A;) accord. to Lth, a c…

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