| gnat | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. gnat | any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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, buffalo gnat, blackfly | small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals. |
| n. (animal) | 2. gnat | (British usage) mosquito. |
| ~ 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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