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WATER FLEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Synonyms:
daphnia; water flea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water flea" is a kind of...):
branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)
Holonyms ("water flea" is a member of...):
genus Daphnia (water fleas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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:
cyclops; water flea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("water flea" is a kind of...):
copepod; copepod crustacean (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)
Holonyms ("water flea" is a member of...):
genus Cyclops (copepod water fleas)
