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 |
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| Synonyms | cyclops |
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| Broader (hypernym) | copepod, copepod crustacean |
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| Member meronym | genus Cyclops |
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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 |
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| Synonyms | daphnia |
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| Broader (hypernym) | branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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| Member meronym | genus Daphnia |
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