daphnia

POS

Noun

TANDA HUBUNG

daph=ni=a

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun daphnia has 1 sense

daphnia(n = noun.animal) water flea - minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae; Array

is a kind of branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan

is a member of genus daphnia

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

daphnia, n. any freshwater branchiopod crustacean of the genus Daphnia, enclosed in a transparent carapace and with long antennae and prominent eyes. Also called freshwater flea.

Etymology

mod.L f. Daphne name of a nymph in Gk mythol., f. DAPHNE