What does water strider mean?

water strider means "long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water".

What is another word for water strider?

Close synonyms include pond-skater, water skater. 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 strider a common word?

water strider 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.

water strider — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water
Synonymspond-skater water skater
Broaderwater bug
Narrowercommon pond-skater
Part ofGerrididae

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