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Donate vs Odonate - What's the difference?

donate | odonate |

As a verb donate

is to make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.

As a noun odonate is

any carnivorous insect of the order odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.

donate

English

Verb

(donat)
  • To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
  • She donates 100 dollars to Red Crescent every year.
    He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.

    Anagrams

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    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)