Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Daphnées

English translation:

Daphnia

Added to glossary by william wooderson
Aug 26, 2010 15:22
13 yrs ago
French term

Daphnées

French to English Other Environment & Ecology
Dear folks
Would anyone know what "Daphnées" means?
The context is ecological information on a chemical product:
Ecotoxicité:
Poisson: CL 50(96h) supérieure à 100 mg/l
Daphnées: CE50(48h): supérieure à 100 mg/l
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 Daphnia

Discussion

chris collister Aug 27, 2010:
Daphnia etc See ref. below for LC (Lethal conc.) and LD (lethal dose) 50 for various animals, including Daphnia....
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Neil_Crickmore/cost862/...
jmleger Aug 26, 2010:
Them is water fleas used as fish food
Isabelle Parsley Aug 26, 2010:
My memory tells me it's referring to a type of insect but I'm having trouble finding solid references in French. Here's the English translation (if I'm remembering the translation correctly): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph_(biology)

Will add a Fr definition if I can find one!

EDIT -- memory does not serve! :) See jmleger's answer below.

Proposed translations

+4
4 mins
Selected

Daphnia

sûr de chez sûr
Note from asker:
Merci beaucoup!
Peer comment(s):

agree Isabelle Parsley : nicely done! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia
4 mins
agree Evans (X) : yes, used to feed these to my fish when I was a kid!
10 mins
agree Bourth (X) : Guess why the name "Daphne" went out of fashion (girls kept getting thrown into aquaria)./Not in English, certainly. At (a muscular) 107kg I'm mon petit poussin to my chère et tendre and no one finds it the least bit funny!
34 mins
Yeah, and you can't really say "Come here, my little water flea" and sustain the mood.
agree Rachel Fell
9 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "That sounds pretty unanimous! Many thanks to everyone for their kind help :-)"
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