water scorpion
noun
: any of numerous aquatic bugs (family Nepidae) with the end of the abdomen prolonged by a long breathing tube
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Despite their name and appearance, water scorpions are not related to true scorpions and do not possess venomous stingers.
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2024
The package comes with a cicada, a cockroach, a Japanese beetle, a water scorpion and an assassin bug for your amateur entomologists.
—Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
Later in the segment, when faced with ranking the solo music careers of his former boy band mates, Styles again declined to answer, this time having to stomach a bite of giant water scorpion.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2024
The package comes with a cicada, a cockroach, a Japanese beetle, a water scorpion and an assassin bug for your amateur entomologists.
—Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
Later in the segment, when faced with ranking the solo music careers of his former boy band mates, Styles again declined to answer, this time having to stomach a bite of giant water scorpion.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
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“Water scorpion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20scorpion. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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