Water Flea Definition

noun
Any of an order (Cladocera) of mostly freshwater branchiopods; esp., any of a genus (Daphnia) commonly found in ponds and used to feed fish in aquariums.
Webster's New World
Any of various other small aquatic crustaceans, such as some copepods, that swim with a similar motion.
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Noun

Singular:
water flea
Plural:
water-fleas

Water Flea Sentence Examples

  • The impact of the spiny water flea on the Great Lakes fisheries is still debated.

  • Though this may dishearten the systematist, Scourfield (1900) reminds us that " It was in a water-flea that Metschni koff first saw the leucocytes (or phagocytes) trying to get rid of disease germs by swallowing them, and was so led to his epochmaking discovery of the part played by these minute amoeboid corpuscles in the animal body."

  • On the water flea image below, it is very dark on the left.

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