water bear

English

Two water bears

Etymology

Calque of German Wasserbär, used to describe these animals by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773. Equivalent to water +‎ bear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

water bear (plural water bears)

1. (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.

   Synonyms: moss piglet, pudgy wudgy, space bear, tardigrade

Translations

A member of the phylum Tardigrada

• Afrikaans: waterbeertjie
• Amharic: የውሃ ድብ (yäwha dəb)
• Armenian: ջրային արջ (ǰrayin arǰ)
• Azerbaijani: ərincəkli
• Bashkir: аҡрын йөрөүсө (aqrın yöröwsö)
• Belarusian: ціхаходка f (cixaxódka)
• Bengali: টারডিগ্রেড (ṭaroḍigreḍ)
• Bulgarian: бавноходка f (bavnohodka)
• Catalan: tardígrad m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水熊 (zh) (shuǐxióng)

• Czech: želvuška f
• Danish: bjørnedyr n
• Dutch: beerdiertje n
• Esperanto: tardigrado
• Estonian: tardigraad, loimur
• Finnish: karhukainen (fi)
• French: tardigrade (fr) m, ourson d’eau (fr) m
• Galician: tardígrado m
• Georgian: ნელამავალნი (nelamavalni)
• German: Bärtierchen (de) n, Wasserbär m

  Alemannic German: Bärdierli, Wasserbär m

• Greek: βραδύπορα (el) n pl (vradýpora)
• Hebrew: דובון מים m (dubón máyim)
• Hindi: टार्डीग्रेड m (ṭārḍīgreḍ)
• Hungarian: medveállatka (hu)
• Icelandic: bessadýr n
• Irish: béar uisce m
• Italian: orso d'acqua, tardigrado m
• Japanese: クマムシ (kumamushi), 緩歩動物 (ja) (kanpodōbutsu)
• Kazakh: жайбасар (jaibasar)
• Korean: 완보동물 (wanbodongmul)
• Lao: ຕາກດີກະລາດາ (tāk dī ka lā dā)
• Latvian: gauskājis m
• Limburgish: waterbaer (li) m, waterbeer m
• Lithuanian: lėtūnas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Waterboor m

• Malayalam: ടാർഡിഗ്രാഡ (ṭāṟḍigrāḍa)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: мызыргышы (myzyrgyšy)

• Navajo: tsįdláádkááʼ naatʼiʼí
• North Frisian: beerdiart
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bjørnedyr n

  Nynorsk: bjørnedyr n

• Occitan: tardigrad m, orson d'aiga m
• Polish: niesporczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: tardígrado, urso d'água
• Romanian: tardigrad (ro) n
• Russian: тихохо́дка (ru) f (tixoxódka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тардигра́де m, дугоживци

  Roman: tardigráde (sh) m, dugoživci

• Slovak: tardigrad m, pomalk
• Slovene: tardigrad m, počásnik m
• Spanish: oso de agua m, tardígrado (es) m
• Swahili: kidudu-dubu class 5/6
• Swedish: björndjur n, trögkrypare c
• Tagalog: tardigrado
• Tatar: әкрен йөрүче (äkren yörüçe)
• Thai: หมีน้ำ (mĕe náam)
• Turkish: su ayısı
• Vietnamese: gấu nước (vi)
• Welsh: arafsymudwr m

References

• water bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tardigrada on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tardigrada on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons