damselfly

1. 1.

   slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest

   Broaderodonate

Other forms of damselfly

plural

damselflies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about damselfly

What does damselfly mean?

damselfly means "slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest".

How many syllables are in damselfly?

damselfly has 3 syllables: dam-sel-fly. The stress falls on "dam".

Is damselfly a common word?

damselfly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.