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gnat 音標拼音: [n'æt] n. 小昆蟲,小煩擾 小昆蟲,小煩擾 gnat n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies 2: ( British usage) mosquitoGnat \ Gnat\, n. [ AS. gn[ ae] t.] 1. ( Zool.) A blood- sucking dipterous fly, of the genus { Culex}, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See { Mosquito}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus { Simulium} and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Gnat catcher} ( Zool.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus { Polioptila}, allied to the kinglets. { Gnat flower}, the bee flower. { Gnat hawk} ( Zool.), the European goatsucker; -- called also { gnat owl}. { Gnat snapper} ( Zool.), a bird that catches gnats. { Gnat strainer}, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. -- Matt. xxiii. 24. [ 1913 Webster] 27 Moby Thesaurus words for " gnat": crumb, dot, drop, droplet, fleck, flyspeck, grain, iota, jot, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, particle, pinhead, pinpoint, point, scrap, snip, snippet, speck, tittle, vanishing point |
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