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Word | Gnat |
Chinese Meaning | 蚊蚋, 蚋; 蚊 |
British usage / any of various small biting flies: midges / A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito. / a small flying insect which stings / a small two-winged fly that resembles a mosquito. Gnats include both biting and nonbiting forms, and they typically form large swarms., | |
Usage | ⇒ I was bitten by a gnat ⇒ Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats , midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies. |
Synonyms | fly, midge, mite, insect, flea, mosquito, animalcule, chigger, grasshopper, microbe, minim, mote, moth, ant, aphid, bacteria, barleycorn, bedbug, bee, bloodsucker, |
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