Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell, moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
English: daphnia, water flea
water_fleaEnglish
water flea, cyclops, daphnia
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
English: cyclops, water flea