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WATER SCORPION

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• 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.

• WATER SCORPION (noun)

Sense 1

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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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