Copepod
Copepod noun - Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish.
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Synonyms for Copepod
Water flea and copepod are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Water flea" with "Copepod", this terms are similar.
Water flea
Water flea noun - Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms.
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Synonyms for Water flea
Copepod and water flea are semantically related. You can use "Copepod" instead a noun phrase "Water flea".
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Water flea and Copepod. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/copepod/water_flea
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