GENUS DAPHNIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Water fleas

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Daphnia" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Daphnia"):

daphnia; water flea (minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae)

Holonyms ("genus Daphnia" is a member of...):

Branchiopoda; subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)

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