0 a large insect with a long, thin, brightly coloured body and two pairs of transparent wings
1 a flying insect with a long, thin body and two pairs of transparent wings
Great glittering dragonflies drifted along the river bank, or hung quivering above pools.
Numbers of caterpillars mounted the stalks of grass, and many dragonflies and butterflies appeared, though this was winter.
Such must be the state of being of a dragonfly on a sunny day.
Through a little opening among the trees, as through a window, I could see the cattle feeding in the wide meadows, all headed alike, and yellow butterflies drifted across the open spaces, and there were bumblebees and dragonflies.
Space use in territorial amberwing dragonflies: are residents female maximizers or neighbor minimizers?
He was a world authority on mosquitoes and dragonflies.
The latter include a range of aquatic insect larvae including those of dragonflies, mosquitoes and chironomids.