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On the etymology of common dragonfly names in Chinese.
Author of the article:LI Peng1，YU Xin2，ZHOU Chang-Fa1
Author's Workplace：(1.College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China;2.Department of Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China)
Key Words：insect; odonata; dragonfly; damselfly; name; etymol
Abstract：Various common names have been created for the odonatan insects in Chinese. Among them, several are used at present, QingTing, QingLing (for dragonflies), Cong, DouNiang (for damselflies), ShuiCai (odonatan naiads). The etymology of them show that
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