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- green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva
- adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.)
- Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies
Trad. 劍走蜻蛉
- the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom)
- fig. unexpected winning move
- unconventional gambit
