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Water flea
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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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