Definisjon av water flea

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Noun

water flea - 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
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
water flea - minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
daphnia
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
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Substantiv

water flea - Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Cladocera, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.

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  • water flea
    A fresh-water branchiopod crustacean of the genus Daphnia characterized by a transparent bivalve shell.

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