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1. (n.) water flea
any tiny freshwater branchiopod crustacean of the order Cladocera, as the daphnia.
Etymology: (1575–85)
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1. (noun) cyclops, 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
2. (noun) daphnia, 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
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1. water flea
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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