Usually means: Aquatic insect, swims on back.
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  8. backswimmer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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▸ noun:  Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

Similar:
notonecta undulata, notonectid, back crawl, backcrawl, water boatman, blueback, paraswimmer, backtroller, butterfly, scaleback, more...

Opposite:
frontswimmer, forward swimmer, ventral swimmer

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Similar:
notonecta undulata, notonectid, back crawl, backcrawl, water boatman, blueback, paraswimmer, backtroller, butterfly, scaleback, more...

Opposite:
frontswimmer, forward swimmer, ventral swimmer



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