water beetle
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noun
any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
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Origin of water beetle
First recorded in 1660–70
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Historical Examples of water beetle
In the great Dyticus water-beetle this is done in a curious way.
Chatterbox, 1905.Various
Compare the antenn with those of the locust and water-beetle.
Elementary Zoology, Second EditionVernon L. Kellogg
I've found a rather rare species of a water-beetle, Dytiscus marginatus; do you know it?
Fathers and ChildrenIvan Sergeevich Turgenev
We can fancy this creature propelling itself much in the same way as a “water-beetle” rows itself through the water in a pond.
Extinct MonstersH. N. Hutchinson
In Colymbetes serricornis, a water-beetle, the male has a serrated clava of four joints.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4)William Kirby
water beetle
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