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WATER FLEA

Definition:

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
   Synonyms: cyclops
   
   
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
   Synonyms: daphnia
   
   

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