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Water flea

Water flea Meaning & Definition
Water flea Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Water flea?

[n] minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Water flea: cyclops | daphnia

Related Terms | Find terms related to Water flea:

See Also | branchiopod | branchiopod crustacean | branchiopodan | copepod | copepod crustacean | genus Cyclops | genus Daphnia

Water flea In Webster's Dictionary

\Wa"ter flea`\ (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera {Cyclops}, {Daphnia}, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

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