"backswimmer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: backswimmers [plural]
Etymology: back + swimmer Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|swimmer}} back + swimmer Head templates: {{en-noun}} backswimmer (plural backswimmers)
  1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs. Categories (lifeform): True bugs Derived forms: pygmy backswimmer Translations (aquatic insect): bootsmannetje [neuter] (Dutch), malluainen (Finnish), Rückenschwimmer [masculine] (German), hoe tuarā (Maori), tó bichʼosh (Navajo)

Inflected forms

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