odonateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

odonate (plural odonates)

1. Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.
   • 1980, Gordon H. Orians, Some Adaptations of Marsh-nesting Blackbirds, page 246:

     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).

   • 2009, Dennis Paulson, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West, page 35:

     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.

   • 2013, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J. Downes, Aquatic Entomology, page 144:

     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).

同意語

• (any species of order Odonata): dragonfly (used loosely, technically incorrect)