Synonyms for Water Flea (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (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):
cyclops
WordNet sense 2 (minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae):
daphnia
From the ODE community, based on WordNet
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