Meanings
Synonyms & antonyms
nounminute 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
nounminute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch watervlo
- watervlocrustacean of the order Cladocera
Finnish vesikirppu
- vesikirppucrustacean of the order Cladocera
French daphnie
- daphniecrustacean of the order Cladocera
German Wasserfloh
- Wasserflohcrustacean of the order Cladocera
Greek νερόψυλλος, δάφνια
- νερόψυλλος (nerópsyllos)crustacean of the order Cladocera
- δάφνια (dáfnia)crustacean of the order Cladocera
Italian dafnia
- dafniacrustacean of the order Cladocera
Polish wioślarka
- wioślarkacrustacean of the order Cladocera
Spanish pulga de agua
- pulga de aguacrustacean of the order Cladocera
Turkish su piresi
- su piresicrustacean of the order Cladocera
Cite this entry
water flea. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/water%20flea
“water flea.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/water%20flea. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “water flea,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/water%20flea.
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