Meaning of water flea in English

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  1. Noun

    water flea

    Definitions

    1. minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming

    Examples

    • « important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms »
  2. 2. minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell

    Examples

    • « moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae »