water flea
water flea · water fleas
Wasserfloh
Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their…Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
Meaning
1 sensesAny of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
Wasserfloh
More definitions
- minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- 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
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By meaning 1
crustacean of the order Cladocera:
Forms
plural: water fleas| Singular | water flea |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae:daphnia
- 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:cyclops