DAPHNIA

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 I. (noun) 

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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

Synonyms:

daphnia; water flea

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("daphnia" is a kind of...):

branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)

Holonyms ("daphnia" is a member of...):

genus Daphnia (water fleas)

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