WATER SCORPION

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Meaning:

Long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("water scorpion" is a kind of...):

water bug (a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water)

Holonyms ("water scorpion" is a member of...):

family Nepidae; Nepidae (water scorpions)

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