water bear

noun

: tardigrade

Examples of water bear in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Almost all natural bodies of water bear fish life, with the exception of very hot thermal ponds and extremely salt-alkaline lakes, such as the Dead Sea in Asia and the Great Salt Lake in North America. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026

This time the little water bears did much better, showing only minor ill effects. —Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic creatures that can survive just about anything: boiling heat, freezing cold and crushing pressure. —Tyler J. Woodward, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2025

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, aren’t just one species, but a phylum that contains many hundreds of species, each specialized to different ecological niches found across the planet — some of them very extreme. —Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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