Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun daphnia

1 sense of daphnia

Sense 1
daphnia, 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)
       => branchiopod crustacean, branchiopod, branchiopodan -- (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)