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Dragonfly vs Wo - What's the difference?

dragonfly | wo |

As nouns the difference between dragonfly and wo

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more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body while wo is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As an interjection wo is

a falconer's call to a hawk.

As a prefix Wo is

the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion.

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

    wo

    English

    (wikipedia wo)

    Alternative forms

    * whoa

    Etymology 1

    Variant of who .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

    Anagrams

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