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water strider

noun

  1. any of several aquatic bugs of the family Gerridae, having long, slender legs fringed with hairs, enabling the insects to dart about on the surface of the water.


water strider

noun

  1. another name for a pond-skater
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of water strider1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

He would build a sort of water strider, a catamaran, and row it.

Trygstad, an avid fly fisherman, has long observed water striders and would like to further study their movements.

Biologists and physicists have long studied water-walking insects, and already, scooting water striders have helped engineers build robots that can leap from the water’s surface.

There were migrating birds in the trees, water striders in the stream and all sorts of invertebrates in the fallen leaves.

It also appears to allow them to evade predators waiting in the water below, as the caterpillar in the video above does, zipping past a swarm of hungry water striders.

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