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Meanings of dragonfly (dragonflies) in English
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
Usage of dragonflies in English
1
The walls were covered with cocoons; moths and dragonflies were pinned everywhere.
2
Half a dozen airplanes circled like dragonflies up there in the blue.
3
Flies buzzed hungrily, along with foot-long dragonflies and other less familiar insects.
4
She wants dragonflies, moths, butterflies, and he-thebanker, I mean-wants everything Indian.
5
Do I think that dragonflies are already being used in the United States?
6
I started with the earrings: No, I said, the earrings are small dragonflies.
7
I remember dragonflies in the sugar bowl, dragonflies in the honey.
8
While fishing at the Round Valley Reservoir he stopped to watch some dragonflies.
9
Tialys and Salmakia mounted their dragonflies and held them quivering on the ground.
10
What I remember most about the dragonflies is how he didn't get it.
11
A stream of dragonflies made for them at once, and the men faltered.
12
Just beyond it, very large helicopters hover like monstrous dragonflies over an airstrip.
13
The walls were lined thickly with gaudy butterflies, dragonflies, and moths.
14
It featured brilliantly coloured dragonflies, pointed downward, like a winged bombs.
15
Butterflies were scarce, but dragonflies darted along like sparks of fire.
16
No, dragonflies, as large as seagulls, which had been waiting in the darkness.
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Translations for dragonflies
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Dragonflies across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common