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Water Strider

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Noun

1. pond-skater, water skater, water strider

long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Water Strider

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noun
another name for a pond-skater

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Water Strider

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any of an insect-eating family (Gerridae) of usually slender-bodied hemipteran insects, having long legs with which they glide swiftly on the surface film of calm waters, esp. of ponds and streams

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Water Strider

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n.
Any of various predatory hemipteran insects of the family Gerridae, having long slender legs with which they support themselves on the surface of water. Also called skater.

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