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English noun: water flea

1. water flea (animal) 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


Synonymscyclops


Broader (hypernym)copepod, copepod crustacean


Member meronymgenus Cyclops

2. water flea (animal) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae


Synonymsdaphnia


Broader (hypernym)branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan


Member meronymgenus Daphnia









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