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WATER SCORPION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water scorpion mean?
• WATER SCORPION (noun)
The noun WATER SCORPION has 1 sense:
1. long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube
Familiarity information: WATER SCORPION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("water scorpion" is a kind of...):
water bug (a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water)
Holonyms ("water scorpion" is a member of...):
family Nepidae; Nepidae (water scorpions)
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