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Damselfly vs Odonate - What's the difference?

damselfly | odonate |

As nouns the difference between damselfly and odonate

is that damselfly is any of various insects of the suborder zygoptera that have long slender bodies, and are similar to dragonflies but having wings folded when at rest while odonate is any carnivorous insect of the order odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.

damselfly

English

(wikipedia damselfly)

Noun

(damselflies)
  • Any of various insects of the suborder Zygoptera that have long slender bodies, and are similar to dragonflies but having wings folded when at rest.

    • Synonyms

    * darning needle * devil’s darning needle

    odonate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.
  • * 1980 , Gordon H. Orians, Some Adaptations of Marsh-nesting Blackbirds , page 246,
    • 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).
  • * 2009 , Dennis Paulson, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West , page 35,
    • Thanks to concern about water birds, these activities have slowed in some regions, and mitigation efforts have provided new wetlands, some of them quite good for odonates .
  • * 2013 , Jill Lancaster, Barbara J. Downes, Aquatic Entomology , page 144,
    • Aspects of such 'smart engineering' are found also in fossil odonates from the mid-Carboniferous, indicating that versatile flight was developed some 80-100 million years ago (Wootton et al. 1988).

    Synonyms

    * (any species of order Odonata) dragonfly (qualifier)