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Definition of Water flea

Water flea
Water flea Wa"ter flea` (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Meaning of Water flea from wikipedia

- The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, is a superorder of small, mostly freshwater crustaceans, most of which feed on microscopic...
- Bythotrephes longim**** (also Bythotrephes cederstroemi), or the spiny water flea, is a planktonic crustacean less than 15 millimetres (0.6 in) long. It...
- Look up flea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A flea is a parasitic insect. Flea may also refer to: Flea (musician), the stage name of Michael Balzary...
- Europe and to the brackish Baltic Sea. Further it was introduced in ballast water to the Great Lakes of North America and a number of adjacent lakes, and...
- aquatic crustaceans commonly called water fleas because their saltatory swimming style resembles the movements of fleas. Daphnia spp. live in various aquatic...
- Daphnia magna, large water flea Daphnia ****x, common water flea Moina, ****anese water flea Diplostraca, clam shrimp Asellus aquaticus, water slater Trachelipus...
- Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), known professionally as Flea, is an Australian and American musician. He is a founding member and b****ist...
- curly-leaf pondweed, Eurasian water-****oil, freshwater jellyfish, spiny water flea, water lettuce, and zebra mussel. The spiny water flea in particular has led...
- that allow a group of organisms to diversify. Daphnia lumholtzi is a water flea that is able to form rigid head spines in response to chemicals released...
- invertebrate animal species (including nematodes, some tardigrades, water fleas, some scorpions, aphids, some mites, some bees, some Phasmatodea, and...