adderbolt

noun

noun

Etymology From adder (“venomous snake”) + bolt (“arrow”).

UK, Dialectal A dragonfly.

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

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