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Water bug   Listen
noun
Water bug  n.  (Zool.)
(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 Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.






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Words linked to "Water bug" :   crotonbug, boat bug, heteropterous insect, Croton bug, genus Blattella, water boatman, German cockroach, Blattella, giant water bug, pond-skater



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