| NOUN | animal | daphnia, water flea | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell |
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| Meaning | 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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| Synonym | water flea | |
| Member of | genus Daphnia | water fleas |
| Broader | branchiopod crustacean, branchiopod, branchiopodan | aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding |
| Spanish | dafnia, daphnia | |
| Catalan | dàfnia | |
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