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Dragonfly vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?

dragonfly | hummingbird |

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

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

    hummingbird

    Alternative forms

    * humming bird, humming-bird

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.)
  • Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

    See also

    * snowcap