daphnia

From the genus name.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæfnɪə/

daphnia (plural daphnias)

1. A water flea of the genus Daphnia.

• daphnea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δᾰφναίᾱ (daphnaíā), from δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, sweet bay; perhaps a kind of coral”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdapʰ.ni.a/, [ˈd̪äpʰniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdaf.ni.a/, [ˈd̪äfniä]

daphnia f (genitive daphniae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of precious stone

First-declension noun.

• “daphnia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• daphnĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.