fairy shrimp

en-noun

fairy shrimp (plural fairy shrimps or fairy shrimp)

fairy shrimps (plural)
fairy shrimp (plural)

Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.

2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent:

A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.


water flea

Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.


brine shrimp

brine shrimp (plural brine shrimp or brine shrimps)

brine shrimp (plural)
brine shrimps (plural)

An aquatic crustacean of the taxonomic genus Artemia, one species of which is often marketed under the name Sea-Monkeys as a novelty gift.

artémie

an aquatic crustacean of the genus Artemia


clam shrimp

clam shrimp (plural clam shrimps or clam shrimp)

clam shrimps (plural)
clam shrimp (plural)

Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborders Cyclestherida, Laevicaudata, or Spinicaudata (of the disused superorder Conchostraca), covered by a bivalve shell and well adopted to live in temporary, shallow ponds, with many identified extinct and extant species used to date strata.


branchiopod

Any of the very many aquatic crustaceans of the class Branchiopoda, such as the fairy shrimps and water fleas.


cladoceran

Any of the small crustaceans of the order Cladocera, now often Diplostraca


daphniid

(zoology) Any water flea of the family Daphniidae


phyllopod

Any of several branchiopod crustaceans whose appendages resemble leaves


dafnia

dafnia (nominative singular)
dafnie (nominative plural)
dafni (genitive singular)
dafni (genitive plural)
dafni (dative singular)
dafniom (dative plural)
dafnię (accusative singular)
dafnie (accusative plural)
dafnią (instrumental singular)
dafniami (instrumental plural)
dafni (locative singular)
dafniach (locative plural)
dafnio (singular vocative)
dafnie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin daphnia, from Ancient Greek δᾰφναίᾱ (dăphnaíā).

daphnia (any water flea of the genus Daphnia)


branchinectid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp of the family Branchinectidae.


branchipodid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp of the family Branchipodidae


chirocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae.


leptodorid

(zoology) Any water flea in the family Leptodoridae.


moinid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Moinidae.


polyphemid

(zoology) Any water flea in the family Polyphemidae.


streptocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Streptocephalidae.


thamnocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Thamnocephalidae.


triopsid

(zoology) Any member of family Triopsidae of tadpole shrimps.


conchostracan

(zoology) Any clam shrimp of the former order Conchostraca.


břichatka

břichatka (nominative singular)
břichatky (nominative plural)
břichatky (genitive singular)
břichatek (genitive plural)
břichatce (dative singular)
břichatkám (dative plural)
břichatku (accusative singular)
břichatky (accusative plural)
břichatko (singular vocative)
břichatky (plural vocative)
břichatce (locative singular)
břichatkách (locative plural)
břichatkou (instrumental singular)
břichatkami (instrumental plural)

From břich (“stomach”) + -atý + -ka. It refers to the rounded (belly-like) shape of the object.

kind of two-man crosscut saw with a blade that is wider in the middle

Další opomíjenou, a přesto výbornou houbou jsou pýchavky. […] Patří do skupiny břichatek, kde výtrusy zrají uvnitř plodnice a v pravý čas prasknou a vypráší do vzduchu miliony výtrusů.

2012 August 29, Martin Mička, “Houbaři, vrchol sezony by měl teprve přijít!”, in Orlický deník.cz:

Another neglected but tasty mushrooms are puffballs. […] They belong to the group of gasteroid fungi, whose spores ripen inside their fruiting body, and which burst in the right time and dust off millions of spores.

bird's nest fungi
bird's nest fungus#English

gasteroid fungus (fungus from the polyphyletic group Gasteromycetes containing puffballs, stinkhorns, bird's nest fungi or false truffles, which produce spores inside their fruiting bodies)

Ceriodaphnia, genus of water fleas from the order Diplostraca


sea monkey

'I think one of my sea monkeys is ill.'
He holds the small plastic sea tank aloft and points at a black speck the size of a pinhead.

2008, Anna Nicholas, Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof: Mayhem in Mayfair and Mallorca:

Greg is a sea monkey farmer. Every year he sells 4.5% of his herd (if that's what you'd call a group of sea monkeys) at the international sea monkey auction.

2011, Linus Christian Rollman, Greg Logan Neps, Crocodiles and Coconuts, page 44:

A brine shrimp, sold as a novelty aquarium pet.


notostracan

Any shrimp of the order Notostraca, now the single family Triopsidae (tadpole shrimp or shield shrimp).


onychopod

Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborder Onychopoda


spinicaudatan

Any of the order Spinicaudata of clam shrimps.


wioślarka

wioślarz (masculine)
wioślarka (nominative singular)
wioślarki (nominative plural)
wioślarki (genitive singular)
wioślarek (genitive plural)
wioślarce (dative singular)
wioślarkom (dative plural)
wioślarkę (accusative singular)
wioślarki (accusative plural)
wioślarką (instrumental singular)
wioślarkami (instrumental plural)
wioślarce (locative singular)
wioślarkach (locative plural)
wioślarko (singular vocative)
wioślarki (plural vocative)

water flea (any crustacean of the order Diplostraca)


rozwielitka

rozwielitka (nominative singular)
rozwielitki (nominative plural)
rozwielitki (genitive singular)
rozwielitek (genitive plural)
rozwielitce (dative singular)
rozwielitkom (dative plural)
rozwielitkę (accusative singular)
rozwielitki (accusative plural)
rozwielitką (instrumental singular)
rozwielitkami (instrumental plural)
rozwielitce (locative singular)
rozwielitkach (locative plural)
rozwielitko (singular vocative)
rozwielitki (plural vocative)

daphnia (any water flea of the genus Daphnia)


Wasserfloh

de-noun

Wasserfloh m (strong, genitive Wasserflohes or Wasserflohs, plural Wasserflöhe)

Wasserflohes (genitive)
Wasserflohs (genitive)
Wasserflöhe (plural)
Wasserfloh (nominative singular)
Wasserflöhe (definite nominative plural)
Wasserflohes (genitive singular)
Wasserflohs (genitive singular)
Wasserflöhe (definite genitive plural)
Wasserfloh (dative singular)
Wasserflohe (dative singular)
Wasserflöhen (dative definite plural)
Wasserfloh (accusative singular)
Wasserflöhe (accusative definite plural)


daphnie

Borrowed from Latin daphnia, from Ancient Greek δᾰφναίᾱ (dăphnaíā).


shield shrimp

A member of the Notostraca; a tadpole shrimp.