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water bug definition

water bug

  1. any of various hemipteran insects that live in fresh waters, including the backswimmers and the water boatmen
  2. loosely Croton bug

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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