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dragonfly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wiktionary
n. An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.
WordNet
n. slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. [syn: darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk]
Wikipedia
DragonFly may refer to:
- DragonFly BSD, a free Unix-like operating system
- DragonFly (rocket), a prototype reusable launch vehicle to test propulsive landings of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule.
- DragonFly (spacecraft), a proposed asteroid prospecting spacecraft to be designed and built by Deep Space Industries
Dragonfly is a fictional comic book superheroine. Created by Rik Levins, she debuted in Americomics #4 (October 1983).
A dragonfly is a flying insect of the order Odonata.
Dragonfly or DragonFly may also refer to:
Dragonfly was an album released by Ziggy Marley on April 15, 2003. The track "Rainbow in the Sky" features both Flea and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while "Melancholy Mood" features only Flea.
Dragonfly is a novel written by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released under the pseudonym K. R. Dwyer in 1975. The book has not been re-issued since.
Dragonfly is an album by the gothic rock band Ego Likeness.
Dragonfly, released in 2000 on the band's own record label Angelfall Music, is the band's first full-length CD. The follow-up to their 1999 demo, Songs from a Dead City, Dragonfly continued to develop the bands eclectic sound and atmosphere.
Recorded over a nine-month period of self-imposed isolation, Dragonfly begins the bands exploration of personal loss, regret, betrayal, growth and change.
Dragonfly (Veronica Dultry) is a fictional supervillainess appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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 the group which represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Members are Drago Vidakovic, Branko Kuznar, Branko Badanjak, and Iva Gluhak.
"Dragonfly" is Hitomi Shimatani's 24th single under Avex Trax. It was released on February 21, 2007. The single peaked at #29 on the Oricon charts and has sold 5,532 copies in the present. 'Dragonfly' is in a form of garage rock while the B-side, 'Bye-Bye' is a mid-tempo classical jazz piece. The single did not sell well because it was released at a later date than was expected.
Dragonfly is a 2002 supernatural fantasy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Kevin Costner. The story is about a grieving doctor being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near-death experience.
Dragonfly is the third studio album by English band Strawbs, after their first album Strawbs and the second one Strawberry music sampler. It contains the lengthy and rather progressive ballad "The Vision of the Lady of the Lake" describing the hardships of a boatman who encounters and battles all kinds of mystical creatures on a lake, with a sword that was given to him by the lady of the lake. The album marked the first collaboration of Rick Wakeman with the band, he would eventually join them on their next album Just a collection of Antiques and Curious in 1970.
Dragonfly is the tenth album by Masami Okui, released on 2 February 2005. This album is the first album she released under her own record label company Evolution.
"Dragonfly" is a song written by British rock musician Danny Kirwan with lyrics taken from a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies. It was originally recorded by Kirwan's band Fleetwood Mac in 1970, and became the first UK single released by the band after the departure of their frontman Peter Green. It was also their first single with Christine McVie as a full member of the group. By the time the song had been released, guitarist Jeremy Spencer had left the band.
Dragonfly is a 2001 Norwegian drama film directed by Marius Holst, starring Kim Bodnia, Mikael Persbrandt and Maria Bonnevie. It is based on the short story "Natt Til Mørk Morgen" by Ingvar Ambjørnsen.
Dragonfly (also known as Shuttle Chess or Bird Chess) is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1983. There are no queens, and a captured bishop, knight, or rook becomes the property of the capturer, who may play it as his own on a turn to any open square. The board is 7×7 squares, or alternatively a 61-cell hexagon with two additional pawns per side.
The game is an offshoot and simplification of a Freeling game named Loonybird (or Dragon Chess). Still, "Play is complex and interesting. Draws are rare too."
DragonFly is a prototype low-altitude rocket-powered test article for a propulsively-landed version of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule. DragonFly is a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV), intended for low-altitude flight testing.
DragonFly is expected to undergo an extensive test program to support reusable rocket technology development for a cargo-carrying and passenger-carrying shuttle capsule. The testing started in Texas at the McGregor Rocket Test Facility in October 2015, although it was originally expected to start in 2014.
Dragonfly is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1983.
Dragonfly is a Steel roller coaster in the Dutch amusement park Duinrell, it was built by the German company Gerstlauer and was opened on 31 March 2012.
Usage examples of "dragonfly".
Frogs loved Mirrinor, and blink-fast dragonflies in resplendent livery, and small midges and gnats and shy green water-snakes and Culicidae and strange, strange things that lived underwater and sneaked around its margins.
Unlike the ones on the dragonfly plane, the seats in there were padded, though still not big enough eyen for her.
Ah, there it was: the Niu clan symbol, a dragonfly within a circle, painted in red on a white banner.
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.
Praying mantises, birds - especially swallows, frogs, river turtles, lizards, spiders and dragonflies all eat mosquitoes.
Like dragonflies, they are daytime hunters and usually patrol near bodies of water.
Dragonfly, he stopped to look over the hundreds of messages, invocations, and pleas written on wooden tags and hung from the message board near the massive gate.
The fish ate many of them, but some matured and hatched into emerald-green dragonflies that buzzed over the water surface, eating the other waterbugs Dokken had added to the system.
There were deerflies and horseflies and dragonflies, looking like winged miniatures of their species.
But the property also has a fox, owl, rabbits, fireflies, dragonflies, and a big box turtle who insists on sharing the dog's yard.
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.
The Level A linkage they were using right now really wasn't much better than the baseline heads-ups the poppers who flew Axeheads or Dragonflies got.
Here gather creatures that fly: griffins, rocs, harpies, hippogryphs, winged donkeys, dragons, fireflies, dragonflies, chimerae, and manticora.
The youngsters larked about us fearlessly, engaged in some dragonfly mating ritual.