Wa·ter ti·ger Zool. A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
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Div·ing a. That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle Zool., any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger.
Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Diving stone, a kind of jasper.
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