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
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Synonyms | water flea |
Type of | copepod, copepod crustacean |
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Type of | giant |
Derivation | cyclopean |
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