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# dragonfly

«dragonfly» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large flying insect with a long thin body and two pairs…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dragonfly, dragonflies)

### meaning for a pupil

A dragonfly is a large flying insect with a long thin body and two pairs of clear wings, often seen near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons dragonflies are insects with six legs and four wings; their young (nymphs) live in water. They eat mosquitoes. In counting problems, wings and legs of dragonflies are added up.

### examples

- A blue dragonfly flew over the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x1)
- Dragonflies have four wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x2)
- A dragonfly eats mosquitoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x3)
- The dragonfly's young live under the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x4)
- We saw two dragonflies on the reeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x5)
- A dragonfly has 6 legs, so 3 dragonflies have 18 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x6)
- Dragonflies have huge eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x7)
- The dragonfly hovered like a tiny helicopter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/#x8)

### note

Plural: dragonflies (y → ies). Myth: dragonflies do not sting people, and they are not dragons or flies. Maths: 1 dragonfly = 4 wings and 6 legs.

### In the corpora

- [A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/)
- [Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/15/)
- [Butterflies, bees and dragonflies have 4 wings each: two on each side.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/204-wings-and-legs/1/)
- [NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dragonfly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragonfly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.