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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small agile predatory insects of the family Saldidae, found along the shores of streams and ponds.

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  • noun A insect if any of numerous small predatory, often burrowing, species of the family Saldidae, found near bodies of water.

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