Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun darning_needle

2 senses of darning needle

Sense 1
darning needle, embroidery needle -- (a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread)
       => sewing needle -- (a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth)

Sense 2
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.)
       => odonate -- (large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings)