Word
Water flea
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
wa-ter flea
Definition
- - Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca
belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because
they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
- noun - 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
- noun - 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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