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water flea
(encz) | water flea, n: |
Water flea
(gcide) | Water flea \Wa"ter flea`\ (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca
belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so
called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
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water flea
(wn) | water flea
n 1: 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
[syn: cyclops, water flea]
2: minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in
a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of
hairy branched antennae [syn: daphnia, water flea] |
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Water flea
(gcide) | Water flea \Wa"ter flea`\ (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca
belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so
called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
[1913 Webster] |
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