Dragonfly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRAGONFLY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a predaceous long-bodied often brilliantly-coloured insect of the Odonata
• a fast-flying long-bodied predatory insect with two pairs of large transparent wings which are spread out sideways at rest. The voracious aquatic larvae take up to five years to reach adulthood.
• brightly coloured insect with a long slender body and two pairs of wings
• slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of a suborder (Anisoptera) of odonate insects that are larger and stouter than damselflies, hold the wings horizontal in repose, and have rectal gills during the naiad stage; broadly; odonate

Words related to DRAGONFLY

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How to use DRAGONFLY in a sentence

• The first little one was mistaken for a dragon-fly, the first big one for a gray plover.
• See the great green dra-gon-fly, And the swal-low skim-ming by.
• It was from a dragon-fly that he learned some valuable lessons in good conduct.
• For all his short sight the dragon-fly had noticed a great many interesting things in nature, about which Tom knew nothing, and of which he heard with wonder.
• It has forgotten the lively grub stage of childhood, and it cannot foresee the dragon-fly adventure just ahead.
• Now, the shell was cracking, the dragon-fly adventure about to begin.
• A dragonfly darted back and forth above the stream.
• It was falling back to the ground before I could focus, the dragonfly in its mouth.
• The snake caught the dragonfly in midair without coiling.
• And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly Came back to dream on the river.
• There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly.
• I knew it by feeling an impulse to look out for the dragon-fly larva, and I knew he knew it because he began to avoid me.
• At length his friend the dragon-fly besought him to leave the quiet home he had disturbed.
• On the Battle side of the bank a huge, blue-winged dragonfly buzzed above the flaunting red and yellow faces of three tiger-lilies.
• For some days after emergence the cuticle of the dragon-fly has a dull pale hue, as compared with the dark or brightly metallic aspect that characterises it when fully mature.
• Some of the drawings evidently represent the deified dragon-fly found almost everywhere among the ruins of Arizona and Northern Mexico.
• Now he felt sure that this black cherry of Bosnia, this girl with the waist of a dragonfly, was his.
• The young man frequently set down his load to join in the pursuit of a dragonfly or moth, while Mrs.
• Sitting on a log, one end of which projects over the stream, I watch a dragon-fly, or darning needle, float over the water, his flight so swift my eyes can hardly follow it.
• A brilliant green dragon-fly, darting meteor-like across her vision, came presently to disturb her reverie.
• An immense green dragon-fly whirred past her and shot away into the shadows.
• Swift as an arrow, the green dragon-fly darted back again, and in an instant flashed away.
• And in that moment she realized what it was of which the dragon-fly reminded her.
• Many years ago I had a dragonfly painted with gorgeous colours, but I never had an opportunity of fairly trying it.
• Then all was still again among the rushes, until the arrival of a female dragon-fly.

Similar words containing DRAGONF without suffix ly

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