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Dragonfly vs Deers - What's the difference?

dragonfly | deers |

As nouns the difference between dragonfly and deers

is that dragonfly is an insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body while deers is plural of lang=en.

As an acronym DEERS is

Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System.

dragonfly

English

(wikipedia dragonfly)

Alternative forms

* dragon-fly

Noun

  • An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.

    • Synonyms

    * (insect of infraorder Anisoptera) darner, darning needle, devil's darning needle, dining needle, ear sewer, horse-stinger, mosquito fly, mosquito hawk, needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder, spindle

    See also

    * Anisoptera * damselfly * Odonata

    deers

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (dated, or, nonstandard)
  • * 1984 , Justin Wilson, Howard Jacobs, More Cajun Humor , page 79,
    • “Not dem kinda deers , dese de kine wit? antling.”
    She say, “I?m goin? witcha.”
    He say, “I'll be damned, iss not?ing but a dirty ol? men's camp an? you can?t go.”
    Well, she bawled an? squalled and raise some sand, but he went to hont dem deers .
  • * 2001 , William Arnett, Emmer Sewell'', Paul Arnett, William Arnett (editors), ''Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South , Volume 2, page 191,
    • “They there to scare the deers' away from the garden. ' Deers , they slip in here at night and make a mess eating up things,” she says.
  • * 2006 , Phil Bowie, Guns , page 296,
    • “I thought he used to be a hunter or something,” Hardin said.
    “If you call shooting deers in some kind of deer zoo great sport,” Sarah said.
    Usage notes
    Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer. Occasionally used in the sense of more than one species, especially when appearing in combination (such as red deer / red deers).

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