water bug

water bug
noun
1. a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water
• Hypernyms: ↑heteropterous insect
• Hyponyms:
2. small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest
• Hypernyms: ↑cockroach, ↑roach
• Member Holonyms: ↑Blattella, ↑genus Blattella

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noun
: any of various insects or other small arthropods that frequent water: as
b. : any of numerous aquatic bugs especially of the family Belostomatidae that have long fringed hind legs which act like oars

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1. any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug).
2. (loosely) a large cockroach, esp. the American cockroach.
[1740-50]

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water bug noun
Any of a large variety of hemipterous insects, including water boatmen, etc, found in or beside ponds, etc
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Main Entry: ↑water

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water bug,
1. any one of certain hemipterous insects that live in, on, or near the water, especially any one of several large bugs with flattened bodies, grasping front legs, and a poisonous bite.
2. = Croton bug. (Cf. ↑Croton bug)

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noun, pl ⋯ bugs [count]
US : a small insect that lives in or near water

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  • Water bug — Wa ter bug (Zo[ o]l.) (a) The Croton bug. (b) Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to {Belostoma}, {Benacus}, {Zaitha}, and other genera of the family {Belostomatid[ae]}. Their hind legs are long …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • water bug — 1. any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug). 2. (loosely) a large cockroach, esp. the American cockroach. [1740 50] * * * …   Universalium

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  • water bug — noun (C) AmE informal a small insect that lives in or on water …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Velvet water bug — Taxobox name = Velvet water bugs regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera subordo = Heteroptera infraordo = Gerromorpha superfamilia = Hebroidea superfamilia authority = familia = Hebridae familia authority =… …   Wikipedia

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