water bear

English

Two water bears

Etymology

Calque of German Wasserbär, used to describe these animals by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773. Equivalent to water +‎ bear.

Noun

water bear (plural water bears)

(zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
Synonyms: moss piglet, pudgy wudgy, space bear, tardigrade

Translations

A member of the phylum Tardigrada

Afrikaans: waterbeertjie
Amharic: የውሃ ድብ (yäwha dəb)
Armenian: ջրային արջ (ǰrayin arǰ)
Azerbaijani: ərincəkli
Bashkir: аҡрын йөрөүсө (aqrın yöröwsö)
Belarusian: ціхаходка f (cixaxódka)
Bengali: টারডিগ্রেড (ṭaroḍigreḍ)
Bulgarian: бавноходка f (bavnohodka)
Catalan: tardígrad m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水熊 (zh) (shuǐxióng)
Czech: želvuška f
Danish: bjørnedyr n
Dutch: beerdiertje n
Esperanto: tardigrado
Estonian: tardigraad, loimur
Finnish: karhukainen (fi)
French: tardigrade (fr) m, ourson d’eau (fr) m
Galician: tardígrado m
Georgian: ნელამავალნი (nelamavalni)
German: Bärtierchen (de) n, Wasserbär m
Alemannic German: Bärdierli, Wasserbär m
Greek: βραδύπορα (el) n pl (vradýpora)
Hebrew: דובון מים m (dubón máyim)
Hindi: टार्डीग्रेड m (ṭārḍīgreḍ)
Hungarian: medveállatka (hu)
Icelandic: bessadýr n
Irish: béar uisce m
Italian: orso d'acqua, tardigrado m
Japanese: クマムシ (kumamushi), 緩歩動物 (ja) (kanpodōbutsu)
Kazakh: жайбасар (jaibasar)
Korean: 완보동물 (wanbodongmul)
Lao: ຕາກດີກະລາດາ (tāk dī ka lā dā)
Latvian: gauskājis m
Limburgish: waterbaer (li) m, waterbeer m
Lithuanian: lėtūnas m
Low German:
German Low German: Waterboor m
Malayalam: ടാർഡിഗ്രാഡ (ṭāṟḍigrāḍa)
Mari:
Western Mari: мызыргышы (myzyrgyšy)
Navajo: tsįdláádkááʼ naatʼiʼí
North Frisian: beerdiart
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bjørnedyr n

Nynorsk: bjørnedyr n
Occitan: tardigrad m, orson d'aiga m
Polish: niesporczak (pl) m
Portuguese: tardígrado, urso d'água
Romanian: tardigrad (ro) n
Russian: тихохо́дка (ru) f (tixoxódka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тардигра́де m, дугоживци

Roman: tardigráde (sh) m, dugoživci
Slovak: tardigrad m, pomalk
Slovene: tardigrad m, počásnik m
Spanish: oso de agua m, tardígrado (es) m
Swahili: kidudu-dubu class 5/6
Swedish: björndjur n, trögkrypa c
Tagalog: tardigrado
Tatar: әкрен йөрүче (äkren yörüçe)
Thai: หมีน้ำ (mĕe náam)
Turkish: su ayısı
Vietnamese: gấu nước (vi)
Welsh: arafsymudwr m

References

water bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tardigrada on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Tardigrada on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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