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dragonfly
(drægənflaɪ)
Word forms: plural dragonflies
countable noun
Dragonflies are brightly-coloured insects with long, thin bodies and two sets of wings. Dragonfliesare often found near slow-moving water.
dragonfly in British English
(ˈdræɡənˌflaɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -flies
1.
any predatory insect of the suborder Anisoptera, having a large head and eyes, a long slender body, two pairs of iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, and aquatic larvae: order Odonata
See also damselfly2.
any other insect of the order Odonata
dragonfly in American English
(ˈdrægənˌflaɪ)
nounWord forms: plural ˈdragonˌflies
any of an order (Odonata) or suborder (Anisoptera) of large insects, harmless to people, having narrow, transparent, net-veined wings and feeding mostly on flies, mosquitoes, etc. while in flight
see also damselflyImage ofdragonfly
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British English: dragonfly /ˈdræɡənˌflaɪ/ NOUN
A dragonfly is a brightly coloured insect with a long thin body and two sets of wings.
- American English: dragonfly
- Arabic: يَعْسُوب
- Brazilian Portuguese: libélula
- Chinese: 蜻蜓
- Croatian: vilin konjic
- Czech: vážka
- Danish: guldsmed
- Dutch: libel
- European Spanish: libélula
- Finnish: sudenkorento
- French: libellule
- German: Libelle
- Greek: λιβελούλα
- Italian: libellula
- Japanese: トンボ
- Korean: 잠자리 곤충
- Norwegian: øyenstikker
- Polish: ważka
- European Portuguese: libélula
- Romanian: libelulă
- Russian: стрекоза
- Latin American Spanish: libélula
- Swedish: trollslända
- Thai: แมลงปอ
- Turkish: yusufçuk
- Ukrainian: бабка
- Vietnamese: con chuồn chuồn
Chinese translation of 'dragonfly'
dragonfly
(ˈdræɡənflaɪ)
n (c)
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蜻蜓
(qīngtíng) (只, zhī)
- evanesce
- evanescence
- evanescent
- evanescently
- evangel
- evangeliar
- evangeliarion
- evangeliarium
- evangeliary
- evangelic
- evangelical
- evangelicalism
- evangelically
- evangelicalness
- evangelicism
- evangeline
- evangelisation
- evangelise
- evangeliser
- evangelism
- evangelist
- evangelistarion
- evangelistary
- evangelistic
- evangelistically