Snap-Dragonfly

Origin
The Snap-Dragonfly is an insect from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Its name and form is a pun on a traditional game called snap-dragon combined with a plant called a snapdragon and a dragonfly.


 * 'Look on the branch above your head,' said the Gnat, 'and there you'll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.'


 * 'And what does it live on?'


 * 'Frumenty and mince pie,' the Gnat replied; 'and it makes its nest in a Christmas box.'

Public Domain Appearances

 * Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There