- darning needle, embroidery needle - a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
--1 is a kind of sewing needle
- dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk - slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
--2 is a kind of odonate