water boatman

1. 1.

   carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs

   Synonymsboat bug

   Broaderwater bug

   Part ofCorixa

Questions about water boatman

What does water boatman mean?

water boatman means "carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs".

What is another word for water boatman?

Close synonyms include boat bug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water boatman a common word?

water boatman 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.