gnat
English Thesaurus
1. (British usage) mosquito (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | mosquito, |
| definition | : | two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (noun.animal) |
2. any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | midge, |
| definition | : | minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | psychodid, |
| definition | : | a fly of the family Psychodidae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black fly, blackfly, buffalo gnat, |
| definition | : | small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals (noun.animal) |
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