Gnat
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GNAT (0. Eng. gncet), the common English name for the smaller dipterous flies (see Diptera) of the family Culicidae, which are now included among "mosquitoes" (see Mosquito).
Gnat
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), ...
GNAT-CATCHER.
Bill of moderate length, depressed at the base, rapidly attenuated, becoming very slender toward the end; upper mandible with the ridge distinct, the tip extremely narrow and deflected, the edges overlapping, the notch distinct, ...
Gnat-fight Probably no other fish made itself as deserved as this in the biological fight of the mosquito-nuisance.
Everywhere you looked there were birds - practically gnat-clouds of birds. Scanning the horizon indicated that the phenomenon was widespread over the northern end of the Bank. The following are estimates: Manx Shearwater - 5
Sooty Shearwater - 2000+ ...
It has a very long tail, trimmed with white, which it uses proficiently in its gyrations as it whirls about in pursuit of gnat-size insects. It breeds as far north as Massachusetts and northern Vermont but appears to be extending its range northward.
 See also: Arthropoda, Mosquito, Bear, Fly, Midge
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