Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous often brightly colored, predatory odonate insects of the suborder Zygoptera that have a long slender body with transparent veined wings and that, unlike dragonflies, hold the wings together over the abdomen when at rest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dragon-fly or devil's darning-needle: so called after the French name of these insects, demoiselle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
insects of the suborderZygoptera that have long slender bodies, and are similar todragonflies but having wings folded when at rest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest
Etymologies
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Phyllis, thanks for "damselfly" - this may come in handy!
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Phyllis, thanks for "damselfly" - this may come in handy!
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Will hope to use it, too, along with Phyllis '"damselfly".
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Will hope to use it, too, along with Phyllis' "damselfly".
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The short antennae above the half-hemisphere eyes of the damselfly nymph are still, but the legs bunched along its thorax are waving slowly.
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Is the French word for dragonfly and damselfly the same?
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One warm day last summer we sat beside our small pond and watched as damselfly nymphs made the final transformation into winged insects.
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Protruding from her open mouth are the head and thorax of a damselfly nymph.
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Ten different dragonflies were recorded, and successful photographs were taken of the rare emerald and the tiny but attractive blue-tailed damselfly.
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Is the French word for dragonfly and damselfly the same?
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