water spider

noun

a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds

This is not the water spider that looks like a mosquito, but the other one, with black downy hair and red stripes on her body.

One variant makes the dilsta′yaʻtĭ, water-spider (“scissors,” Dolomedes), help in the work.

In another version the Dragon-fly assists the Water-spider by pushing the tusti from behind.

A little water-spider sat on the leaf of a water-lily and smoothed her fine velvet dress.

A change of diet was imperative, and, in seeking for this, he came into collision with the water-spider.

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