Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
Common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers.
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Examples for "dragonfly"
Examples for "dragonfly"
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We visited Avondale House in Wicklow and enjoyed the dragonfly nature reserve.
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VandenBrooks said tracheal volume may be tied to prehistoric dragonfly body size.
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The wings split like dragonfly gossamers, poised for increased maneuvering and power.
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The thought came and went like a dragonfly skimming the river's surface.
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An angry dragonfly shape passed overhead as the first Apache took aim.
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Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
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Why, I turned away three score of them with a darning needle.
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Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large darning needle.
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Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
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He held up the slim, steel darning needle to the light.
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She vaulted to her feet, pricking her finger on her sewing needle.
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The twins might already have a sewing needle and disinfectant, but this was Italy.
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They used to tattoo each other with a sewing needle dipped in black ink.
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An imaginary sewing needle turned slowly in the wound, producing a cold flare of pain.
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One of the women picked up a sewing needle and gripped it like a weapon.
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Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor.
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They believed that the presence of dragonflies, which they called snake doctors, meant a serpent lay nearby.
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Snake doctors, limber, long insects with bronze bodies and filmy wings, went back and forth like small living shuttles.
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"I tell you what," observed Geary; "get some court-plaster at the snake doctor's just above here."
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For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk.
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One of my pets, after plying her mother with about forty questions, wound up with, Mother, how does the devil's darning needle sleep?