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waterbug

waterbug is the alternative form 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

Forms of waterbug

pluralwaterbugs

Questions about waterbug

What is waterbug the alternative form of?
Waterbug is the alternative form of water bug.

Words near waterbug in the dictionary

  1. waterbreaks
  2. waterbuck
  3. waterbucket
  4. waterbuckets
  5. waterbucks
  6. waterbug
  7. waterbugs
  8. Waterburian
  9. waterburn
  10. Waterbury
  11. Waterbury Center

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