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buffalo gnat

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buffalo gnat
n.
See black fly.
buffalo gnat
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae Also called black fly
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Noun1.buffalo gnat - small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvaebuffalo gnat - small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
black fly, blackfly
gnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
genus Simulium, Simulium - type genus of the Simuliidae: blackflies
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