odonate

Definitions

Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.

Equivalents

Examples

“The proportion of these prey that were odonates can be estimated from the food sample data taken at the Potholes (Chapter Four; Orians and Horn, 1969).”

“Thanks to concern⟳ about water birds, these activities have⟳ slowed in some regions, and mitigation efforts have⟳ provided new wetlands, some of them quite good for odonates.”

“Aspects of such 'smart engineering' are found also in fossil odonates from the mid-Carboniferous, indicating that versatile flight was developed some 80-100 million years ago (Wootton et al. 1988).”

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