water scorpion
noun
: any of numerous aquatic bugs (family Nepidae) with the end of the abdomen prolonged by a long breathing tube
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The package comes with a cicada, a cockroach, a Japanese beetle, a water scorpion and an assassin bug for your amateur entomologists.
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Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
Later in the segment, when faced with ranking the solo music careers of his former boy band mates, Styles again declined to answer, this time having to stomach a bite of giant water scorpion.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
Later in the segment, when faced with ranking the solo music careers of his former boy band mates, Styles again declined to answer, this time having to stomach a bite of giant water scorpion.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
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1668, in the meaning defined above
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“Water scorpion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20scorpion. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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