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  • n  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
  • n  minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
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  • Researchers point to ecological concerns for Lake Conway's Dawson Cove in wake of Mayflower oil spill
    Log Cabin Democrat funds independent testing. by Elizabeth McGowan Tests with fathead minnows, water fleas and bloodworms subjected to water and sediment near the Mayflower spill site are confirming what Arkansas state agencies are claiming more than eight months after the Pegasus pipeline burst — that the level of pollutants now likely constitutes more of an ecological concern than a public ...
    Dec. 4, 2013 - Arkansas Times

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