DAPHNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daphnia mean? 

• DAPHNIA (noun)
  The noun DAPHNIA has 1 sense:

1. minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

  Familiarity information: DAPHNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAPHNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

daphnia; water flea

Hypernyms ("daphnia" is a kind of...):

branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)

Holonyms ("daphnia" is a member of...):

genus Daphnia (water fleas)