| NOUN | animal | water flea, cyclops | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming / swimming |
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| animal | water flea, daphnia | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell |
| Meaning | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming / swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms. | |
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| Synonym | cyclops | |
| Member of | genus Cyclops | copepod water fleas |
| Broader | copepod, copepod crustacean | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax |
| Catalan | ciclop | |
| 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 | daphnia | |
| 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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