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water flea

/'wɔtər_fli/

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noun
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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cyclops

type of:
copepod copepod crustacean
noun
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
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daphnia

type of:
branchiopodan branchiopod branchiopod crustacean

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