globe skimmer

Arabic translation: حشرة اليعسوب

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English term or phrase:globe skimmer
Arabic translation:حشرة اليعسوب
Entered by: Noha Kamal, PhD.

11:56 Aug 20, 2010
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Botany
English term or phrase: globe skimmer
a kind of insects.

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Noha Kamal, PhD.
Local time: 15:47
حشرة اليعسوب
Explanation:
ويطلقون عليها كاسحة العالم أو الجوالة الشراعية
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Muhammad Atallah
Egypt
Local time: 15:47
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4 +3حشرة اليعسوب
Muhammad Atallah
5حشرة اليعسوب المهاجر
Hasna Chakir


  

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حشرة اليعسوب


Explanation:
ويطلقون عليها كاسحة العالم أو الجوالة الشراعية


    Reference: http://www.arabstoday.net/12000.html
Muhammad Atallah
Egypt
Local time: 15:47
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 12

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agree  TargamaT team
2 hrs

agree  Lamis Maalouf: Right, good reference.
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agree  Iman Haggag
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حشرة اليعسوب المهاجر


Explanation:
Pantala flavescens, the Globe Skimmer or Wandering Glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. This species and Pantala hymenaea, the "Spot-winged Glider", are the only members of the genus Pantala from the subfamily Pantalinae. It was first described by Fabricius in 1798.[1] It is considered to be the most widespread dragonfly on the planet.
The English common names "Wandering Glider" and "Globe Skimmer" refer to its migratory behaviour.[3] The German name Wanderlibelle mean "migrant dragonfly

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Note added at 7 ore (2010-08-20 19:36:37 GMT)
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لايكفي أن نقول حشرة اليعسوب فقط لأن اليعاسيب أنواع وأنواع وهي فصيلة
اليعاسيب متنوعة :
فصائل اليعاسيب

تجدون ادناه مجموعة من اليعاسيب شائعة الوجود وبعض المعلومات عنها تساعدك على تمييزها عند رؤيتها:

Migrant Hawker
Caliaeschna microstigma
Cordulegaster insignis insignis
Scarlet Dragonfly
Broad-bodied Chaser
Black-tailed Skimmer
Yellow-winged Darter
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Azure Damselfly
Lestes virens virens
Platycnemis dealbata


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Note added at 7 ore (2010-08-20 19:37:16 GMT)
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http://www.wildlebanon.org/ar/pages/ani/dragdamswhos.html


Hasna Chakir
Morocco
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

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neutral  TargamaT team: معك حق من حيث المبدأ، ولكن كلها عند العرب "يعسوب" وحتى كتب الحشرات العربية لا تميز بينها بل تعطي الاسم الأجنبي واللاتيني أحينًا وتعطي الوصف لاحقًا، وكلامي يصدق حتى على الفرنسية...ـ
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