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water bugs

water bugs is the plural of water bug.

Meaning of water bug

Noun

water bug (plural water bugs)

  1. Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha of true water bugs.
  2. Any of various other true bugs that live around water.
  3. An American cockroach (Periplaneta americana).
  4. An oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis).
  5. Synonym of water strider.
    Synonyms:
    water strider

Questions about water bugs

What is water bugs the plural of?
Water bugs is the plural of water bug.

Words near water bugs in the dictionary

  1. water bridges
  2. water buffalo
  3. water buffaloes
  4. water buffalos
  5. water bug
  6. water bugs
  7. water bus
  8. water buses
  9. water butt
  10. water butts
  11. water cabbage

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