Daphnia Synonyms

dăfnē-ə
Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. water-flea

Words Related to Daphnia

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. pulex
  2. rotifer
  3. crustacean
  4. chironomids
  5. paramecium

Daphnia Sentence Examples

  • Of the seven genera, the cosmopolitan Daphnia contains about 100 species and varieties, of which Thomas Scott (1899) observes that " scarcely any of the several characters that have at one time or another been selected as affording a means for discriminating between the different forms can be relied on as satisfactory."

  • Daphnia are found in large numbers sheltering under floating aquatics such as water-lilies.

  • These can be easily raised in newly hatched brine shrimp, powdered flake, and small daphnia and other pond foods.