The larvae of various insects, such as the green rice caterpillar or bollworm; the larvae are often paralyzed by wasps to serve as food for their young.

an adopted son; a son taken in to be raised as one's own

the sword moves like a dragonfly; an unconventional gambit or an unexpected winning move in a fight or competition

Any of various small insects resembling mosquitoes but smaller and yellow-white or light gray in color; the females suck blood and can transmit diseases such as sandfly fever.

sandfly; small biting insect that sucks blood from humans and animals

sandfly fever; a viral disease transmitted by the bite of infected sandflies

toy helicopter rotor made of bamboo that flies upward when spun between the palms

a type of green insect with slender bodies and delicate wings that is beneficial to agriculture because it eats aphids

(bound form) damselfly; lacewing; a species of insect similar to a dragonfly but with smaller front wings

the order of insects comprising dragonflies and damselflies, containing approximately 6,000 species

(literary) dragonfly

an insect of the order Odonata; also known as a dragonfly