Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various water fleas of the genus Daphnia, having long branched antennae, some species of which are commonly used as food for aquarium fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of minute fresh-water cladocerous entomostracous crustaceans, the type of the family Daphniidœ, and representative of the whole order Daphniacea or Cladocera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of the genus Daphnia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
water flea of the genusDaphnia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the lab, Diamond recently showed a visitor how he exposed tiny water fleas called daphnia to titanium dioxide nanoparticles.
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Try offering less dried foods, especially pellets, or offer some daphnia which is believed to act as a laxative.
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Try offering less dried foods, especially pellets, or offer some daphnia which is believed to act as a laxative.
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Daphnia are used as "biomoitors"--if the daphnia start acting beserk, something is wrong with the water.
Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009
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I was involved with an after school science program where one group tested the effects on daphnia of the components of sports drinks.
I heart Daphnia doyle 2009
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There were all kinds of tiny animals in there, water beetles and daphnia and so on and so forth.
Archive 2009-06-28 Sean Craven 2009
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Daphnia are used as "biomoitors"--if the daphnia start acting beserk, something is wrong with the water.
I heart Daphnia doyle 2009
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There were all kinds of tiny animals in there, water beetles and daphnia and so on and so forth.
True Amphibian Crime Part Two: The Transbay Newt Shuffle Sean Craven 2009
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I hardly spend time contemplating the daphnia I carelessly tossed into the compost today, and the daphnia left certainly do not spend any time pondering me.
Late November doyle 2008
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So I pull out yards and yards of elodea, and along with it snails and daphnia and copepods and stentorians and paramecia.
Late November doyle 2008
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