"diving beetle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: diving beetles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} diving beetle (plural diving beetles)
  1. Any beetle of the family Dytiscidae. Categories (lifeform): Adephagan beetles Derived forms: great diving beetle (taxonomic: Dytiscus marginalis), predaceous diving beetle Translations (beetle of Dytiscidae): 潜水甲虫 (qiánshuǐ jiǎchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), Schwimmkäfer [masculine] (German), ゲンゴロウ (gengorō) (Japanese), 다이빙 딱정벌레 (daibing ttagjeongbeolle) (Korean), chrust [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), táłtłʼááh chʼosh (Navajo), плавуне́ц (plavunéc) [masculine] (Russian), dykare [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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