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Odonate meaning
Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.
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Odonate Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ODT) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 24th.
Odonates as indicators of the ecological integrity of the river corridor: Development and application of the Odonate River Index (ORI) in northern Italy.
Sometimes the giant Hawaiian darner Anax strenuus (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) is claimed to be the largest living odonate with an alleged wing span of 190 mm, but this seems to be rather a myth as only 152 mm are scientifically documented.
The longest living odonate is the Neotropical helicopter damselfly Mecistogaster linearis (Zygoptera: Pseudostigmatidae) with a body length of 135 mm.