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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
- The bee, the robin, the frog, and the dragonfly are all made using wax that I dyed with black cobalt stain. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Wall Mosaic 1: Girl with Scythe
- fireworks, Fourth of July, United States, Independence Day Peacock Feather/Dragonfly: Pyrotechnicians agree that the blue-violet shades of this peacock feather are the most challenging to formulate.
- Tadpoles and froglets can be preyed on by other frogs, crayfish, fish, turtles, and dragonfly larvae.
- The scientists found that the non-native fish are aiding bullfrog invasion by eating native dragonfly nymphs that would normally prey on bullfrog larvae.
- Pranger and her family enjoyed sneaking out at night with a flashlight to peek at the dragonfly nymphs and tiny, two-inch-long tree frogs that had taken up residence in the ponds.
- It's call the ExoFly, and Ray described it as a "dragonfly-on-steroids … a nimble flapping aerobot. Universe Today
- We would not call a dragonfly eye and a human eye homologous—they seem so different, in so many ways, and the evidence suggests that our last common ancestor was eyeless, with little more than photosensitive spots. PZ Myers - The Deepest Links (on Evolution)
- Dragonfly time is marked by the psychedelically colored adults darting about and abandoned nymphal skins clinging to shoreline vegetation, though you won't find either in big numbers. How to Catch Trout on a Fly Rod with Dragon- and Damselfly Imitations
- Dragonfly nymphs are shorter and bulkier, and the gills are located inside the abdomen.
- Why do many helminth species, apparently grebe specialists, use dragonfly nymphs as intermediate hosts?