water bear

Other forms: water bears

Definitions of water bear
  1. noun
    a microscopic animal with eight legs that lives in water or moss
    synonyms: tardigrade
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    type of:
    arthropod
    invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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