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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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