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Definition of Order Odonata
1. Noun. Dragonflies and damselflies.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Odonate, Anisoptera, Suborder Anisoptera, Suborder Zygoptera, Zygoptera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Odonata
Literary usage of Order Odonata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... DRAGON-FLIES (order Odonata.) Excepting the butterflies, there are few more
attractive and graceful insects than the " dragon-flies," as the members of ..."
2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1901)
"... Hübner 79 Editorial 84 Entomological Literature 85 Notes and News 89 Doings
of Societies 92 On Gomphus fraternus, externus and crassus (order Odonata). ..."
3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"... order Odonata THE DRAGON-FLIES By Charles B. Wilson INTRODUCTION Like the
May-flies, the Dragon-flies are all aquatic and constitute the most important ..."
4. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"... in them an important article of food, and in this view only are they of any
economic importance. Order ODONATA. Under this head come the dragon-flies ..."
5. The Odonata of Ohio by David Simons Kellicott (1899)
"The order Odonata is divided into two sub-orders : I. Zygoptera in which both
pairs of wings are similar and which in repose are held ..."
6. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... (order Odonata). Philadelphia, Pa., Ent. News Acad. N'at. Sei., Amer. ...
McLachlan (order Odonata), with some remarks on the classification of the ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... South American forms are among the largest species of the order Odonata.
They do not fly high in the air, but frequent low-growing aquatic vegetation. ..."
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