WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: NOUN
- Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Cladocera, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
- One of numerous small or minute crustaceans which skip about in the water like fleas, as Daphnia pulex; any branchiopod. See Daphniidæ, Cladocera, Cyclops.
- Any of various other small aquatic crustaceans, such as some copepods, that swim with a similar motion.
- Any of various small chiefly freshwater branchiopod crustaceans of the order Cladocera, having a bivalve carapace and typically swimming with jerking flealike motions, and including the daphnias.
- 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
- Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
- Sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters
WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
- Of deep warm waters
WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: RELATED WORDS
- Sea animal, Congo snake, Bell animalcule, Water bug, Malacostracan crustacean, Whale louse, Backswimmer, Beach flea, Water scorpion, Lernean, Phyllopod, Branchiopod crustacean, Branchiopod, Cyclops, Daphnia
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WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Entoproct, Sea animal, Congo snake, Bell animalcule, Water bug, Malacostracan crustacean, Whale louse, Backswimmer, Beach flea, Water scorpion, Lernean, Phyllopod, Branchiopod crustacean, Branchiopod, Daphnia
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WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Try blackworms, grindal worms, vinegar eels or the fully aquatic water flea.
- The water flea Daphnia pulex alternates between sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction.
- Squaretail kob reach a maximum size of 1200 mm (13kg) they are are found primarily from Salt Rock to Richards Bay (Tugela Banks).
WATER FLEA vs SQUARETAIL: QUESTIONS
- Is the spiny water flea the next invasive species in Minnesota?
- How does the spiny water flea affect the ecosystem?
- Do anchors and fishing lines help prevent spiny water flea?
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