dragonfly

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Related topics: Insects

drag·on·fly /ˈdræɡənflaɪ/ noun (plural dragonflies) [countable] HBIa brightly-coloured insect with a long thin body and transparent wings which lives near water 蜻蜓 →4 See picture of 见图 INSECT →5 see picture at 见图 insect

Examples from the Corpus

dragonfly• Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies.• There were fireflies and dragonflies and huge blackflies with electric wings.• The earliest so far discovered are dragonflies.• They scarcely resemble the order of dragonflies after which they were named.• Indeed, some of our dragonflies regularly migrate across the North Sea.• That second child may have spent her preschool years catching and studying dragonflies or building castles out of blocks.• No bird of prey hovered overhead, not even the dragonflies disturbed the oily surface of the pond.