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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various aquatic hemipteran insects of the family Corixidae, having long oarlike hind legs used for swimming.
- noun A backswimmer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The boat-fly or boat-insect, an aquatic bug of the family Notonectidæ: so called because these insects move in the water like a boat propelled by oars.
- noun An aquatic bug of the family Corisidæ. All the North American species belong to the genus Corisa, as C. undulata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A boat bug.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various aquatic
insects of the family Corixidae that have paddle-shaped hind legs used for swimming.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs
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