| 单词 | water skeeter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater skeeter water skeeter n. North American = water skater n. [Apparently an alteration of water skater n., after skeeter n.1] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > family Gerridae > member of (pond-skater) water skater1858 water strider1888 pond skater1895 water skeeter1900 strider1974 1900 Cosmopolitan July 251/1 We saw Doctor McDowell..go up the course, resembling in his outrigger nothing so much as that queer insect called by the negroes in the South the ‘water-skeeter’. 1976 J. Hodgins in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 310 The water..back-eddies into little bays where cattail and bracken grow and where water-skeeters walk on their own reflection. 2012 S. Franson Secret Lives Chickens iii. 46 Spawning fish circled and rested in the pools..as they headed upstream, water skeeters darted across its surface, [and] other insects swam in it. < as lemmas |
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