noun
1. a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
• Syn: ↑embroidery needle
• Hypernyms: ↑sewing needle
2. slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
• Syn:
↑dragonfly, ↑devil's darning needle, ↑sewing needle, ↑snake feeder, ↑snake doctor, ↑mosquito hawk, ↑skeeter hawk
• Hypernyms: ↑odonate
Useful english dictionary. 2012.