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Webster 1913 Edition

Odonata

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O-don′a-ta

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ὀδούς

,

ὀδόντος

, a tooth.]

(Zool.)

The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.

Definition 2024

Odonata

Odonata

Translingual

Megalagrion leptodemas (crimson Hawaiian damselfly)

Proper noun

Odonata

A taxonomic order within the subclass Pterygota – the dragonflies and damselflies.

Hypernyms

(order): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota, Odonatoptera, Holodonata - clades

Hyponyms

(order): Epiprocta (dragonflies and infraorder Epiophlebioptera), Zygoptera (damselflies) (suborders)
- Archizygoptera (clade)
- Permagrionoidea (extinct superfamily, incertae sedis)