giant water bug

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   large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts; feeds on young fishes

   Broaderwater bug

   Part ofBelostomatidae

Questions about giant water bug

What does giant water bug mean?

giant water bug means "large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts; feeds on young fishes".

Is giant water bug a common word?

giant water bug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.