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单词 eye gnat
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eye gnat
eye gnat n. any of various minute black flies, esp. of the family Chloropidae, which swarm around the eyes of people and animals; also called eye-fly.
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1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 24 July in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 423 Our trio of pests still invade and obstruct us on all occasions, these are the Musquetoes eye knats and prickley pears.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 421 The eye gnats, Hippelates spp., often occur in great numbers, especially in parts California and the southern United States.
1971 W. M. Rogoff in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) xxi. 611 Among the Diptera are..the many disease-carrying and discomfort-producing mosquitoes, sand flies, black flies.., eye gnats, horse flies, deer flies, and tsetse flies.
2000 R. A. Rubin On Beaten Path (2009) xxxiii. 150 The springs had dried up, and the heat made the ridge crests shimmer and the eye-gnats swarm.
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