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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. 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;
[syn: cyclops, water flea]

2. minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae;
[syn: daphnia, water flea]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Water flea \Wa"ter flea`\ (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

water flea n 1: 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 [syn: cyclops, water flea] 2: minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae [syn: daphnia, water flea]