| 单词 | gnat |
| 释义 | gnat (once / 3282 pages) n WORD FAMILY gnat: gnats USAGE EXAMPLESThe lawsuit continues: “In St Charles County Jail the drains in the showers were filled with gnats. “ The Guardian(Dec 06, 2016) When a young local hunk tries to flirt with her, she waves him off like a gnat: “I’ve got vibrators older than that child.” Time(Nov 11, 2016) The cooks were thin boys who fanned skewers with one hand and swatted gnats with the other. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) 1n any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies Hypo|Hyper biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie, punky minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects midgeminute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water psychodida fly of the family Psychodidae Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly, sandflyany of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis black fly, blackfly, buffalo gnatsmall blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals 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 2n (British usage) mosquito Hyper 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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