gnat

DEFINITIONS OF: gnat

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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

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

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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