skeeter hawk

Questions about skeeter hawk

What does skeeter hawk mean?

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

What is another word for skeeter hawk?

Close synonyms include dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skeeter hawk a common word?

skeeter hawk 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.