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water flea vs copepod

copepod vs water flea

water flea and copepod both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
water flea Yes No No No
copepod Yes No No No
As nouns, copepod is a hypernym of water flea; that is, copepod is a word with a broader meaning than water flea:
  • water flea: 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
  • copepod: minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
Other hypernyms of water flea include copepod crustacean.
water flea (noun) copepod (noun)
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
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
Difference between water flea and copepod

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