Water flea

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
  2. 2
    minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae wordnet
  3. 3
    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 wordnet

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