Daphnia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various water fleas of the genus Daphnia, some species of which are commonly used as food for aquarium fish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A water flea of the genus Daphnia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus of the genus Daphnia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of minute fresh-water cladocerous entomostracous crustaceans, the type of the family Daphniidœ, and representative of the whole order Daphniacea or Cladocera.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
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