gerrid

English

Noun

gerrid (plural gerrids)

1. (entomology) Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.
   • 1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:

     However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host.

Anagrams

• Grider, girder