whirligig beetle

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   aquatic beetle that circles rapidly on the water surface

   Broaderbeetle

   Part ofGyrinidae

Questions about whirligig beetle

What does whirligig beetle mean?

whirligig beetle means "aquatic beetle that circles rapidly on the water surface".

Is whirligig beetle a common word?

whirligig 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.