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Definition: Damselfly |
DamselflyNoun1. Slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Damselflies
See this photo, much largerScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Hexapoda Order: Odonata Suborder: Zygoptera Families
- Amphipterygidae
- Calopterygidae
- Coenagrionidae
- Dicteriadidae
- Lestidae
- Megapodagrionidae
- Perilestidae
- Platystictidae
- Polythoridae
- Protoneuridae
- Pseudostigmatidae
- Synlestidae
The Damselfly (suborder Zygoptera) is an insect in the order Odonata. They are similar to a dragonfly, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact their wings are held along the body when at rest. They are also usually smaller, and weaker fliers than dragonflies, and the eyes are separated.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Damselfly."
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| "Another damselfly" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "Ricoh RDC7 macro shot... just chased the damselfly until it gave up!." |
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| "Damselfly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Damselfly" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
damselfly | 37 |
damselfly nymph | 8 |
damselfly larva | 3 |
damselfly eyed red small | 3 |
damselfly picture | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "damselfly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 糸蜻蛉 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いととんぼ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amselflyday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-l-m-s-y" | |
-2 letters: falsely, mesally. | |
-3 letters: alleys, dalles, damsel, deafly, delays, fellas, flamed, flames, flayed, fleams, ladles, lameds, lamely, malfed, malled, measly, medals, medfly, myself, safely, slayed, smelly. | |
-4 letters: alefs, alley, almes, amyls, dales, dally, dames, deals, delay, delfs, dells, delly, emyds, fades, falls, false, famed, fames, fayed, fella, fells, felly, flame, flams, flamy, flays, fleam. | |
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