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

He looked back at the water spider, then at Anya again.

From Literature

His tail swished, and the water spider swayed back and forth.

From Literature

Håkon let his tail drop, and the water spider collapsed back into the river with a dull crash.

From Literature

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