Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name-giving genus of bugs of the family Gerridœ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Gerrididae
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Examples
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Ad confirmandum superius mendacium de Inferno terrestri ac visibili, commentum hoc, non minus calumniosum (etsi facil� largiar, Frisium non tam calumniandi, qu鄊 noua & inaudita pr鎑icandi animo ista scripsisse) qu鄊 falsum ac gerris Siculis long� vanius ac detestabilius, excogitarunt homines ignaui, nec coelum ec infernum scientes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ad confirmandum superius mendacium de Inferno terrestri ac visibili, commentum hoc, non minus calumniosum (etsi facilè largiar, Frisium non tam calumniandi, quàm noua & inaudita prædicandi animo ista scripsisse) quàm falsum ac gerris Siculis longè vanius ac detestabilius, excogitarunt homines ignaui, nec coelum ec infernum scientes.
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Ad confirmandum superius mendacium de Inferno terrestri ac visibili, commentum hoc, non minus calumniosum (etsi facilè largiar, Frisium non tam calumniandi, quàm noua & inaudita prædicandi animo ista scripsisse) quàm falsum ac gerris Siculis longè vanius ac detestabilius, excogitarunt homines ignaui, nec coelum ec infernum scientes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian Holger Levsen 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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(And gerris was one of them ...) * Speaking of which, the bug count has been gone quite dramatically.
Planet Debian 2009
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