Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any aquatic heteropterous insect of the family Hydrobatidæ a water-skipper: so called from their long, slender, straddling legs and aquatic habits.
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Examples
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I love the Nike water-strider and the Pepsi ladybug in particular -- and the gimmicked shot of a slug that has slimed the Coca-Cola logo is sheeer genius.
Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives 2005
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Soon it was racing in the wake of the herd like a silver water-strider.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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"A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe," Wilson says, describing whole frontiers of technology he deliberately omitted from his book's blood-spattered battles: real-life robots that climb walls with technology borrowed from gecko lizards, others that emulate water-strider bugs, one that crawls over the surface of a beating heart.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Barber 2011
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