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Water Flea (Noun)

Meaning 1

Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Synonyms

  • Cyclops

Hypernyms

  • Copepod

Meaning 2

Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Synonyms

  • Daphnia

Hypernyms

  • Branchiopod Crustacean
  • Branchiopodan
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