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darning needle

DEFINITIONS OF: darning needle

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n a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread

Synonyms:
embroidery needle
Type of:
sewing needle
a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth

n slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.

Synonyms:
devil's darning needle, dragonfly, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder
Type of:
odonate
large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings
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