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water flea

/ water flea /
noun

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noun Sense 1
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Type of:
branchiopod crustacean branchiopod branchiopodan
Has parts:
genus Daphnia
noun Sense 2
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
Type of:
copepod copepod crustacean
Has parts:
genus Cyclops
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
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Total Relationships
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Times Searched
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branchiopod crustacean branchiopod branchiopodan copepod copepod crustacean