water flea - Similar and Opposite Words

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Here are the synonyms for water flea , a list of similar words for water flea from our thesaurus that you can use

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
• water flea

More generic

• branchiopod
• branchiopod crustacean
• branchiopodan

Related

• genus Daphnia

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
• water flea

More generic

• copepod
• copepod crustacean

Related

• genus Cyclops

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