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GENUS DAPHNIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Daphnia mean?
• GENUS DAPHNIA (noun)
The noun GENUS DAPHNIA has 1 sense:
1. water fleas
Familiarity information: GENUS DAPHNIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water fleas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Daphnia" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Daphnia"):
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)
Holonyms ("genus Daphnia" is a member of...):
Branchiopoda; subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)
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