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dragonfly::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
| Type of | odonate |
Examples of dragonfly
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He scouted an area along Big Darby Creek and identified some dragonfly hot spots.
From the dispatch.com
His dragonfly research is conducted in relation to regional water quality issues.
From the thestate.com
Dragonfly won my vote when they made me a Pisco Sour without batting an eyelid.
From the guardian.co.uk
The dragonfly species that Marden and Schilder studied is Libellula pulchella.
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I wasn't actually aware of this dragonfly since I was occupied with other objects.
From the sfgate.com
Voracious feeders, a dragonfly can eat hundreds of pesky mosquitos and gnats a day.
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Steven Wiederman with a dragonfly in the Adelaide Centre for Neuroscience Research.
From the sciencedaily.com
A dragonfly hovers nearby, hanging on like me for a clear day in late summer.
From the guardian.co.uk
Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors.
From the time.com
- Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- A dragonfly is a type of insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera. It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body. ...
- DragonFly BSD is a free Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on July ...
- Dragonfly is a fictional comic book superheroine. Created by Rik Levins, she debuted in Americomics #4 (October 1983).
- Dragonfly is the group which represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Members are Drago Vidakovic, Branko Kuznar, Branko Badanjak, Iva Gluhak
- Dragonfly, in comics, may refer to: *Dragonfly (AC Comics), an AC Comics superheroine *Dragonfly (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillainess *Dragonfly (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillainess
- Dragonfly is a fantasy, horror novel by author Frederic S. Durbin. It was released in 1999 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,000 copies. It was the author's first novel.
- Dragonfly is an album by the gothic rock band Ego Likeness.
- Dragonfly is a 2002 film directed by Tom Shadyac. The story is about a grieving doctor being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near-death experience.
