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PRONUNCIATION OF WATER SPIDER

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Water spider is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WATER SPIDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

water spider

Diving bell spider

The diving bell spider or water spider, Argyroneta aquatica, is the only species of spider known to live entirely under water. Argyroneta aquatica is found in northern and central Europe and northern Asia up to latitude 62°N. It is the only spider known to spend its whole life under water. As with other spiders, it breathes air, which it traps in a bubble held by hairs on its abdomen and legs. This gives it a silvery appearance, despite it being velvet-grey. The spider inhabits ponds in Europe and northern Asia, and lives for approximately two years. The appearance of the diving bell gave rise to the genus name Argyroneta, from the Greek "argyros", meaning "silver", and "neta", a neologism derived from the verb "neo" "spin", intended to mean "spinner of silver". Females build underwater "diving bell" webs which they fill with air and use for digesting prey, molting, mating and raising offspring. They live almost entirely within the bells, darting out to catch prey animals that touch the bell or the silk threads that anchor it. However, they have to surface occasionally to renew their personal air supplies and those of their webs.

Definition of water spider in the English dictionary

The definition of water spider in the dictionary is a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATER SPIDER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WATER SPIDER

aider
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Synonyms and antonyms of water spider in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «water spider» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATER SPIDER

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The translations of water spider from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «water spider» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水蜘蛛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

araña de agua
570 millions of speakers

English

water spider
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पानी मकड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العنكبوت المياه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вода паук
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aranha água
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জল মাকড়সা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

araignée d´eau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Labah-labah air
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wasserspinne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミズグモ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물 거미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Laba banyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhện nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீர் சிலந்தி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाणी स्पायडर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Su örümcek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ragno d´acqua
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pająk wody
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вода павук
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

păianjen de apă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αράχνη νερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

water spin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vatten spindel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vann edderkopp
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATER SPIDER»

The term «water spider» is normally little used and occupies the 139.640 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER SPIDER»

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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Tree squirrel - water ...
There is nothing particularly distinctive about the appearance of the water spider. It is small-bodied and long-legged, the front part of the body light brown with faint dark markings, the chelicerae (an anterior pair of appendages) reddish brown ...
‎2002
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Insects and Spiders of the World
KEY FACTS Name Water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) Distinctive features The only spider that lives in water Breeding Lays 20 or more eggs underwater in a separate air chamber in late spring Size 0.3 to 0.6 inches (0.7 to 1.5 cm) long SEE ...
‎2003
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Aquatic Life of the World: Tarpon-Wrasse
Name Water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) Water vole FACT FILE Name Richardson vole, or water vole. cocoon of silk, using organs called spinnerets. The cocoon is attached to the stem of a submerged plant. The spider then swims to the ...
‎2001
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Harper's Magazine
The Water Spider is a most curious and interesting creature, because it affords an example of an animal which breathes atmospheric air constructing a home beneath the water, and filling it with the air needful for respiration. The sub- aquatic ...
Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, 1866
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Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and ...
water spider, which has moved from the land and back to the ancestral home of all life: the water. This amazing and rarely seen animal has retained the ability to produce silk from its back end, and in the aquatic environment, it has put this skill  ...
Ross Piper, 2007
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Tunkashila
HOW MANY NAMES TELLS THE TALE OF HAWK STORM'S THIRD WARRIOR NAME, WATER SPIDER, AND HOW OUR HERO ACQUIRES IT The next time the children gathered around Many Names, he told them that the new name of ...
Gerald Hausman, 2011
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Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico
Common names: Water-spider Orchid, Creeping Orchid, Floating Orchid. Plant slender or stout, leafy, glabrous, 1-9 dm. tall. Roots slender, fibrous, often with tuberous swellings. Leaves linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, ...
Donovan Stewart Correll, 1978
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The Routledge Companion to Cost Management
Table 3.1 The activity path for value stream 1 Resource Activity path for value stream 1 Standard Per unit – if not otherwise stated Stock 1 Stock 1 storage 5 days Water spider Transport of materials per batch 180 sec Factory 1 Storage ( average ...
Falconer Mitchell, Hanne Nørreklit, Morten Jakobsen, 2013
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
The Water Spider is a most curious and interesting creature, because it affords an example of an animal which breathes atmospheric air constructing a home beneath the water, and filling it with the air needful for respiration. The sub- aquatic ...
‎1866
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Supply Chain Design (Collection)
See 3Gs, 8 Wastes, gemba, lean thinking, management by walking around. water spider — A lean manufacturing practice of assigning a skilled worker to re-supply parts to the point of use on the production line; a worker who follows a timed ...
Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand, Arthur V. Hill, 2013

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER SPIDER»

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Bug-Inspired Robot Launches From Water Surface Like Water Spider
A team of researchers created a robotic insect that could jump above the water surface like a water spider. Pioneer universities collaborated on the project. «Yibada, Jul 15»
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subaquatic water spider nests inform ICD/ITKE research pavilion …
the institute for computational design (ICD) and the institute of building structures and structural design (ITKE) continue their series of research pavilions with the ... «Designboom, Jul 15»
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5 Ways Real-World Arachnids Spin Webs Around 'Spider-Man'
You remember that seminal scene in the Spider-Man story where young Peter ... Europe's water spider spends its whole life underwater, using its web to form a ... «TakePart, Apr 14»
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Dan Slott & Olivier Coipel on 'Spider-Verse'
Here's the skinny on a new miniseries featuring every kind of Spider-Man having to unite against Morlun. March 24th, 2014 .... He's a water spider! Ant-Man! «Crave Online, Mar 14»
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Water Spider From 520 Million Years Ago Solves Puzzle
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The fossil of an extinct marine spider, discovered in China 520 million years after it lived in the ocean, has helped scientists solve an ... «Bloomberg, Oct 13»
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Water Spider Spins Its Own "Scuba Tank"
"The water spider's air bell is in some ways working like an external lung," said study co-author Michael Taborsky. Found in ponds throughout northern and ... «National Geographic, Aug 07»

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