water beetle

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   any of numerous aquatic beetles usually having a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs for swimming

   Broaderbeetle

   Part ofDytiscidae

Questions about water beetle

What does water beetle mean?

water beetle means "any of numerous aquatic beetles usually having a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs for swimming".

Is water beetle a common word?

water beetle 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.