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Definition of Water flea

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.

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.

Definition of Water flea

1. Noun. Any of various aquatic crustacea characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming; mostly species of Daphnia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Water flea

1. Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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