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water flea vs copepod crustacean

copepod crustacean vs water flea

water flea and copepod crustacean both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
water flea Yes No No No
copepod crustacean Yes No No No
As nouns, copepod crustacean is a hypernym of water flea; that is, copepod crustacean 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 crustacean: 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.
water flea (noun) copepod crustacean (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 crustacean

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