Water-flea
noun
1.
any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
noun
1.
any of numerous minute freshwater branchiopod crustaceans of the order Cladocera, which swim by means of hairy branched antennae See also daphnia
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