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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATER STRIDER

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Water strider is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WATER STRIDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

water strider

Gerridae

Gerridae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, magic bugs, pond skaters, skaters, skimmers, water scooters, water skaters, water skeeters, water skimmers, water skippers, water spiders, or Jesus bugs. One main characteristic that sets gerrids and other true bugs apart from other insects is that the front wing is only half functional. Rather than using it for flight, it acts as a membranous covering and the thickened part is by where claws develop. Consistent with the classification of Gerridae as true bugs, gerrids have a mouthpart evolved for piercing and sucking, gerrids distinguish themselves by having the unique ability to walk on water. Gerridae, or water striders, are anatomically built to transfer their weight to be able to run on top of the water's surface. As a result, one could likely find water striders present in any pond, river, or lake. Scientists have identified over 1,700 species of gerrids, 10% of them being marine.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATER STRIDER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WATER STRIDER

beam rider
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Synonyms and antonyms of water strider in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «water strider» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATER STRIDER

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The translations of water strider 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 strider» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水黾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zancudo de agua
570 millions of speakers

English

water strider
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पानी Strider
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ستردير المياه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

водомерки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

strider de água
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পানিপোকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

araignée d´eau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengangkat air
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wasserläufer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アメンボ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물 스트라이더
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penyebar banyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

strider nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீரிழிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाणी प्रवासी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Su kaydıracı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strider acqua
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Strider wody
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

водомерки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Strider apă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νεροβάτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

water strider
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vatten Strider
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vannløpers
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER STRIDER»

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Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon: Nature Activities ...
The water supports the water strider because the molecules at the surface are more tightly bound together than those below, causing what is known as surface tension. This is the same phenomenon that allows a carefully placed needle to ...
Edward Duensing, 1997
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Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores
It is this upwardly directed force (about 34% of the overall force) that resists the weight of the water strider, thereby allowing the insect to stand on the air-water interface. Recall that units of surface tension are force per length. Therefore, by ...
Mark W. Denny, Steven Dean Gaines, 2007
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A Field Guide to the Familiar: Learning to Observe the ...
If you bend down and look from an angle, you will see an edge of white from the water strider's underside. A fish looking up from below has as much trouble seeing the white underside as you have seeing the dark back. Close up, the water ...
Gale Lawrence, 1984
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Some Habitat Responses of the Large Water-strider: Gerris ...
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Charles Frederick Curtis Riley, 2009
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Bioinspired Intelligent Nanostructured Interfacial Materials
2.4 Walking on Water — Water Strider 2.4.1 The mechanism of water strider walking on water Water strider Gerridae is a small insect of about 1 cm in length that usually resides on the surface of ponds, slow streams, and marshes. Like other ...
Lei Jiang, Lin Feng, 2010
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Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, ...
... aerial and aquatic predators; and they produce noxious chemicals that are highly effective at deterring predatory fish. 15.17.2.6 Water Strider (“Jesus Bugs”) Order: Hemiptera) Description: The most distinguishing characteristic of the order is ...
Frank R. Spellman, 2013
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The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids
Life history of the water strider Metrocoris histrio B. White (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol. 23: 2145-2151. Blanckenhorn, W. U., R. F. Preziosi and D. _]. Fairbairn. 1995. Time and energy constraints and  ...
Jae C. Choe, Bernard J. Crespi, 1997
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Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the ...
Animal mating systems: A synthesis based on selection theory. Am. Nat. 143: 317 -348. Arnqvist, G. 1988. Mate guarding and sperm displacement in the water strider Gerris lateralis Schumm. (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Freshw. Biol. 19: 269- 274.
Leigh W. Simmons, 2001
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Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructured Materials: Fabrication, ...
9.8 SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES ON CURVED SUBSTRATES It is well known that a water strider can float and move quickly on water surfaces. Recently , biomimetic research has revealed that this interesting feature is mainly the result  ...
Weiping Cai, Guotao Duan, Yue Li, 2014
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Proceedings of 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation ...
Licheng Wu, Yu Yang, Guosheng Yang and Xinkai Gui Abstract Biologically inspired by water strider, water strider robot uses surface tension force produced by supporting leg to stay and walk on water surface. The robot's loading capacity can ...
Zengqi Sun, Zhidong Deng, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER STRIDER»

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Insect Robots Can Mimic Water Striders
A group of researchers from Seoul and Harvard universities have recently constructed tiny insect robots that can jump and land on water based on the ... «The Inquisitr, Aug 15»
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The Last Summer of the Water Strider by Tim Lott review – afloat on …
The Last Summer of the Water Strider by Tim Lott review – afloat on a hippy houseboat. The 60s dream unravels in the life of a teenager coming of age in the ... «The Guardian, Aug 15»
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Tiny robotic insect can jump on water like a strider
Water's surface needs to be pressed at the right speed for an adequate amount of time, up to a certain depth, in order to achieve jumping. The water strider is ... «Engadget, Jul 15»
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Incredible Robotic Water Strider Jumps Like the Real Thing
To reproduce this jumping ability in a robot, Je-Sung Koh and colleagues from Seoul National University studied the way water striders do it. The resulting ... «io9, Jul 15»
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How water striders' leg hairs create 'magic formula' to repel water
Using microscopes, the researchers monitored water striders - or gerritae - under high humidity conditions, as this is a climate in which they appear to thrive. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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How the legs of water striders repel water
Cascade of self-motions for water droplets condensing on a leg of water strider. (A) G. remigis, an insect commonly called water strider, lives at the surface of ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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The Last Summer of the Water Strider by Tim Lott – a boy comes of …
Set over one long hot summer of the 1970s, The Last Summer of the Water Strider is the coming-of-age story of Adam, a bored 17-year-old living with his mum ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Researchers evaluate mosquitoes' ability to float on water in order to …
Small semi-aqueous arthropods, such as mosquitoes and water striders, are free to go about their waterborne business thanks to their unique leg-based ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
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Amazing Animals That Walk on Water
There are more than 340 species of water striders, insects that are specialized to spend nearly their entire lives at the water's surface. They belong to a category ... «NatGeo News Watch, Jun 14»
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How a pond skater can walk on water: It's all down to hairy legs and …
The pond skater, also known as the water strider, is one of a tiny proportion of insects, around 0.1 per cent, that are able to stand and move on water, science ... «Daily Mail, Oct 12»

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