fig-gnatn. a gnat, Culex ficarius, injurious to the fig.
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 954Culex ficarius, i.e. Fig Gnat.