water-flea

The infective stage Or Guinea worm is not from fecal contamination, but is from a tiny larva that develops in a water-flea after the larva is discharged into the water.

Chapter 6 1985

In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

I have already spoken of the fresh-water shrimp and the water-flea

Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

His early work in zoology led him to study the water-flea, and thence to discover that the white cells of the human blood oppose, consume, and destroy invading microbes.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

There was something rather disturbing in the dry, quizzical smile that I encountered and the reflection that I had been under observation, and I felt as much embarrassed as I should suppose a self-conscious water-flea might feel on finding itself on the illuminated stage of a binocular microscope.

The Red Thumb Mark 1902

At the top end of the stalk is the mouth, and if you watch carefully you may be fortunate enough to see the long arms catch a water-flea, and carry it towards the mouth.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

Again, more remote, but still very definite, resemblances unite the lobster with the woodlouse, the king crab, the water-flea, and the barnacle, and separate them from all other animals; whence they collectively constitute the larger group, or class,

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The case of the humble water-flea certainly is not explicable by normal Darwinian processes.

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