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Slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest
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damselfly
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Damselflies are insects of suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata . They are similar to dragonflies , which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera , but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at ...
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damselfly \damselfly\ n. a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest.
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n. slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various insects of the suborder ''Zygoptera'' that have long slender bodies, and are similar to dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest.
Usage examples of damselfly.
Mosquitoes are actually flies, but dragonflies, butterflies, damselflies, fireflies, mayflies and stoneflies are not.
The nymphs of both dragonflies and damselflies eat mosquito larvae and other pests.
As word spread they began to come up, from lower down the mountain: cockroaches by the ten thousand, bees, hundreds of varieties of beetle, flies, gnats, midges, mosquitoes, dragonflies, damselflies, crane flies, mayflies, yellow-and-black-striped wasps, orange-and-black-striped hornets.
Some Bink recognized: lightning bugs zapping their charges (this must have been where the demonstration bug had come from, the one that had burned up in the village), soldier beetles marching in precise formations to their bivouac, ladybugs and damselflies hovering near in the immemorial fashion of easy-virtue females near armies.
Some Bink recognized: lightning bugs zapping their charges (this must have been where the demonstration bug had come from, the one that had burned up hi the village), soldier beetles marching hi precise formations to their bivouac, ladybugs and damselflies hovering near hi the immemorial fashion of easy-virtue females near armies.