water flea
noun
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Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- copepod hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Cyclops member holonym
Sense 2 noun
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Types & categories
- branchiopod crustacean hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Daphnia member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Cyclops |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | copepod |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Daphnia |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | branchiopod crustacean |