dragonfly

«dragonfly» in Mova's school dictionary: a large flying insect with a long thin body and two pairs… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dragonfly, dragonflies)

meaning for a pupil

A dragonfly is a large flying insect with a long thin body and two pairs of clear wings, often seen near water. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons dragonflies are insects with six legs and four wings; their young (nymphs) live in water. They eat mosquitoes. In counting problems, wings and legs of dragonflies are added up.

examples

• A blue dragonfly flew over the pond. tree →
• Dragonflies have four wings. tree →
• A dragonfly eats mosquitoes. tree →
• The dragonfly's young live under the water. tree →
• We saw two dragonflies on the reeds. tree →
• A dragonfly has 6 legs, so 3 dragonflies have 18 legs. tree →
• Dragonflies have huge eyes. tree →
• The dragonfly hovered like a tiny helicopter. tree →

note

Plural: dragonflies (y → ies). Myth: dragonflies do not sting people, and they are not dragons or flies. Maths: 1 dragonfly = 4 wings and 6 legs.

In the corpora

• A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.
• Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.
• Butterflies, bees and dragonflies have 4 wings each: two on each side.
• NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dragonfly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.