water scorpion

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   long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube

   Broaderwater bug

   Part ofNepidae

Questions about water scorpion

What does water scorpion mean?

water scorpion means "long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube".

Is water scorpion a common word?

water scorpion 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.