gnat

Noun
  1. Any of various small biting flies: midges;
    Biting midges;
    Black flies;
    Sand flies (synset 102204939)
    is a type of: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
    subtypes:
    • biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie, punky - minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
    • midge - minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
    • psychodid - a fly of the family Psychodidae
    • phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly, sandfly - any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
    • black fly, blackfly, buffalo gnat - small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
  2. (British usage) mosquito (synset 102203282)
    is a type of: mosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

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