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/dɹˈæɡənflˌaɪ/
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NOUN
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
How To Use dragonfly In A Sentence
- Buglike, and reminding me of dragonfly wings were two long pinions, and just under them were two more.
- Empty but not hungry, she felt sleek and spare, like a dragonfly.
- Idly I watched a dragonfly flit across the pond over which Hermes was poised as though in flight. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
- A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
- The sun on the hill forgot to die And the lilies revived, and the dragonfly Came back to dream on the river. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- It was in April, I think: the dragonfly nymphs were molting by the river.
- Mallards and black ducks also dive for pond snails and probably a range of aquatic insects like dragonfly nymphs.
- However, for this little creature there are so many things to be learnt: is it a dragonfly or a damselfly?
- Saved from his crazy nocturnal adventure, he sets about building a microlight aircraft shaped like a dragonfly.
- When Tom is identified as a thumbling, he has been speaking to a dragonfly larva also about to undergo a metamorphosis.