| 释义 |
Noun: water flea wotur flee- 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
- cyclops - Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- daphnia
Derived forms: water fleas Type of: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan, copepod, copepod crustacean Part of: genus Cyclops, genus Daphnia Encyclopedia: Water flea |