adderbolt

English

From adder (“venemous snake”) +‎ bolt (“arrow”).

adderbolt (plural adderbolts)

(now UK dialectal) A dragonfly. [from 15th c.]
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXIX:
  Other Animals I observ'd to have yet a greater number, as the Dragon-Fly or Adderbolt […].
- 1742, John Martyn & Ephraim Chambers (trans.), The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, volume II, page 355:
  This philosopher has also found an insect fish, which transforms into an adder-bolt.

单词	adderbolt
释义	adderbolt English Etymology From adder (“venemous snake”) +‎ bolt (“arrow”). Noun adderbolt (plural adderbolts) (now UK dialectal) A dragonfly. [from 15th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXIX: Other Animals I observ'd to have yet a greater number, as the Dragon-Fly or Adderbolt […]. 1742, John Martyn & Ephraim Chambers (trans.), The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, volume II, page 355: This philosopher has also found an insect fish, which transforms into an adder-bolt.
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