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Meanings of water bug in English
Portuguese
baratinha Small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest.
Synonyms
Examples for "German cockroach"
Examples for "German cockroach"
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However, there was no significant correlation with German cockroach and Alternaria allergen.
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Inhibition experiments showed that boiled Atlantic shrimp extract inhibited CAP with German cockroach, and vice versa.
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Cross-reactivity exists between shrimp, an important food allergen, and German cockroach, which has an increasing role in allergic asthma.
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Background: The German cockroach has been reported to act as an allergen that might be associated with a protease reaction in asthma.
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Buczkowski's team studied German cockroaches, a shiny, orange-tinged roach that is among the most common household species in the United States.
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The croton bugs have longer wings and they sometimes fly.
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Our croton bugs are not really bugs.
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We call it the croton bug, but it is not a bug at all, it is a cockroach.
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It is a small black-beetle or cockroach, called by scientists "Blatta germanica" and by others the " Croton Bug."
Usage of water bug in English
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Surely you're not going to be outdone by a water bug?
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Being a city boy, I've never killed anything larger than a water bug.
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Ike appeared, his kayak scooting upriver like a water bug.
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We even managed to snag a (seemingly) newly hatched giant water bug!
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The baby mosquito is a regular little water bug.
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Will the water bug grow and eat the fish?
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Still, at eight years old she stepped on to her aunt's boat and the water bug bit.
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The menu ranged from a cranberry and water bug cocktail to caramelized worms with almonds and cashews.
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Yes, this little threadlike creature belongs to the same order as the big flat giant water bug.
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Her heart became a liquid that pooled under her feet and she was a water bug racing on molecules.
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She folded herself into the passenger compartment and the trike buzzed off, skittering through traffic like a rasping water bug.
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A good many kinds of bugs live in the water , but perhaps the oddest of all is the giant water bug.
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Presently he noticed a funny water bug crawling on the bottom where the water was only an inch or two deep.
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The most exciting thing you found was a trilobite, and it's basically just some kind of big water bug, isn't it?
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They eventually made a pact that the next water bug to disappear would come back and tell the others where it had gone.
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That's a water bug. For the white people up here, the rats are raccoons, the silverfish are dachshunds, and the black people are their friends.