water spider

British  

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

If you want to see, say, “Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess” or “Water Spider Monmon,” there’s only one theater in the world where you can see them.

From New York Times

Ten species found here exist nowhere else in the United States—the rattail orchid, the crooked-spur orchid, the dwarf epidendrum, the twisted orchid, Gale’s orchid, the false water spider, Harris’s tiny orchid, the hidden orchid, the small-flowered maxillaria, and the frosted-flower orchid.

From The New Yorker

He caught a reassuring water spider in the swamp, of a kind that eats mosquito larvae, but patiently explained that the real worry is smaller receptacles such as the crevices in bromeliad plants, which typically need only to be drained.

From Economist

This type of water spider waits on the surface until an insect, small fish, or tadpole comes near.

From National Geographic

Fascinated by the water spider ever since he read about it as a boy, physiologist Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide in Australia decided to study it "out of sheer curiosity more than anything else."

From Science Magazine