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water flea
Noun
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
synonym
daphnia
holo member
genus Daphnia
hypernym
branchiopod
branchiopod crustacean
branchiopodan
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
synonym
cyclops
holo member
genus Cyclops
hypernym
copepod
copepod crustacean
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