water bug

See also: waterbug

English

Alternative forms

• waterbug

Noun

water bug (plural water bugs)

1. Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha, the true water bugs.
2. Any of various other true bugs that live around water.
3. An American cockroach of species Periplaneta americana.
4. An oriental cockroach of species Blatta orientalis.

Translations

member of infraorder Nepomorpha

• Finnish: vesilude

other true bug living around water

• Finnish: vesilude

Periplaneta americana

• Finnish: sokeritorakka, amerikantorakka

Blatta orientalis

• Finnish: itämainen torakka (fi)