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gerrid (plural gerrids)

  1. (entomology) Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.
    • 1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:
      However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host.

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