Dragonfly vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?
dragonfly | hummingbird |
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.
Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
* 1857 Thoreau, Henry David , journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau'', Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology ''Thoreau's bird-lore , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
As nouns the difference between dragonfly and hummingbird
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 hummingbird is any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.dragonfly
English
(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 * Odonatahummingbird
English
(wikipedia hummingbird)Alternative forms
* humming bird, humming-birdNoun
(en noun)- Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]