water flea
English Thesaurus
1. minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae (noun.animal)
| member meronym | : | genus daphnia, |
| definition | : | water fleas (noun.animal) |
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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | copepod, copepod crustacean, |
| definition | : | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus cyclops, |
| definition | : | copepod water fleas (noun.animal) |
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