Dragonfly

Alternative forms

 * dragon-fly

Noun

 * 1) An insect of the suborder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.

Synonyms

 * darner
 * darning needle
 * devil's darning needle
 * ear sewer
 * horse-stinger
 * mosquito fly
 * mosquito hawk
 * needle
 * skeeter hawk
 * snake doctor
 * snake feeder
 * spindle

Translations

 * Afrikaans: naaldekoker
 * Aklanon: tambibidli
 * Arabic: منسوب الماء
 * Armenian: (č̣puṙ)
 * Belarusian: страказа
 * Bengali: ফড়িং
 * Binisayâ: tambuburay
 * Bosnian: vilin konjic, vilinski konjic
 * Breton: nadoz-aer nadozioù-aer
 * Bulgarian: водно конче
 * Catalan: libèl·lula, cavall de serp, espiadimonis, tallanassos, teixidor, barratgina.
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蜻蜓
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: салмуксонь салы (salmuksonj salï)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cabalo do demo,
 * German:
 * Greek: λιβελλούλη
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: שפירית (shapirit)
 * Hiligaynon: tumbak-tumbak
 * Hungarian:
 * Ilocano: tuwato
 * Isthmus Zapotec: sumpirinisa, xhumpirinisa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蜻蛉
 * Komi: юрси гусь (jurxji guxj)
 * Korean: 잠자리


 * Kurdish: zencere
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: spāre
 * Lithuanian: laumžirgis, žirgelis , skėtė (some species), strėlikė  (some species)
 * Malay: capung
 * Malayalam: (thumbi)
 * Maltese: debba tax-xitan, ħelikopter
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (tasnif hedja'i),
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: प्राचिका (prācikā), प्राचिका
 * Scottish Gaelic: tarbhan-nathrach, cuileag-lasrach
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: вилин коњиц, вилински коњиц
 * Roman: vilin konjic, vilinski konjic
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: trollslända
 * Tagalog: tutubi
 * Tamil: தும்பி
 * Telugu: తూనీగ (tooneega)
 * Thai: แมลงปอ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: стрекоза, важка, бабка
 * Vietnamese: con chuồn chuồn
 * Volapük: libelul,  hilibelul,  jilibelul,  libelulül,  hilibelulül,  jilibelulül
 * Welsh: gwas y neidr