English > gnat: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies. |
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| Narrower | blackfly, black fly, buffalo gnat | small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae |
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| midge | minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts |
| psychodid | A fly of the family Psychodidae |
| punkie, punky, punkey, no-see-um, biting midge | minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects |
| sand fly, sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasii | Any of various small dipterous flies |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | 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 |
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| Spanish | mosquito |
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| Catalan | mosquit |
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