Dragonfly vs Firefly - What's the difference?
dragonfly | firefly |
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.
Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
* 2000 , Exploring Life Science , 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish,
* 2004 , B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Chapter 20: Bioluminescence'', ''General and Applied Entomology , Tata McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition,
* 2007 , Lars Olof Björn, Helen Ghiradella, 23: Bioluminescence'', Lars Olof Björn (editor), ''Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light , Springer, 2nd Edition,
As nouns the difference between firefly and dragonfly
is that firefly is any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight while 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.dragonfly
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(wikipedia dragonfly)Alternative forms
* dragon-flyNoun
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, spindleSee also
* Anisoptera * damselfly * Odonatafirefly
English
(wikipedia firefly) (Lampyridae)Noun
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- Fireflies' are the best-known insects that produce light.Many ' fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
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- The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
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- Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly' luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation.The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from ' fireflies as an assay for ATP.