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- noun Plural form of
dragonfly .
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Examples
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My mother used to call dragonflies “darning needles”…Darning needles would fly up and sew up the mouths of little children who talked too much.
Logic 101: Gravity, radio, and library books « knitnut.net 2008
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BASS LOVE TO FEED ON MOSQUITO HAWKS ALSO known as dragonflies.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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BASS LOVE TO FEED ON MOSQUITO HAWKS ALSO known as dragonflies.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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BASS LOVE TO FEED ON MOSQUITO HAWKS ALSO known as dragonflies.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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For example, those working on micro air vehicles look to insects such as dragonflies; those working on climbing robots or adhesives look to the gecko lizard; and those working on making water-repellent or super clean surfaces look to the lotus plant.
Material World: July 2008 Tracy Staedter 2008
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For example, those working on micro air vehicles look to insects such as dragonflies; those working on climbing robots or adhesives look to the gecko lizard; and those working on making water-repellent or super clean surfaces look to the lotus plant.
Material World: New materials Tracy Staedter 2008
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For example, those working on micro air vehicles look to insects such as dragonflies; those working on climbing robots or adhesives look to the gecko lizard; and those working on making water-repellent or super clean surfaces look to the lotus plant.
Material World: Marine Worm Jaws Inspire New Aerospace Materials Tracy Staedter 2008
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In the case of the insects, such as dragonflies and midges, only the egg and larvae stages are found in this zone.
Freshwater biomes 2007
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They're going to implant micro-electro-mechanical systems MEMS into insects such as dragonflies and moths...even into hopping and swimming insects!
INSECT CYBORGS News from Mad Plato 2006
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They're going to implant micro-electro-mechanical systems MEMS into insects such as dragonflies and moths...even into hopping and swimming insects!
Archive 2006-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2006
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