Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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water flea | Yes | No | No | No |
copepod crustacean | Yes | No | No | No |
water flea (noun) | copepod crustacean (noun) |
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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 |