"water spider" Definition

Definitions for the word "water spider" from multiple English dictionaries.

1.
An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2.
A water mite.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3.
Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large American species (Dolomedes lanceolatus) which runs rapidly on the surface of water; -- called also raft spider.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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