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Odonate

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.

    "The proportion of these prey that were odonates can be estimated from the food sample data taken at the Potholes (Chapter Four; Orians and Horn, 1969)."

  2. 2
    large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings wordnet

Etymology

From translingual Odonata, from Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”), apparently because they have teeth on their mandibles, although most insects have toothed mandibles.

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