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Meaning of water flea in English
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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.
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell
Examples
« moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae »