What does biting midge mean?

biting midge means "minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects".

What is another word for biting midge?

Close synonyms include punkie, punky, punkey, no-see-um. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is biting midge a common word?

biting midge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

biting midge — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
Synonymspunkie punky punkey no-see-um
Broadergnat
Part ofCeratopogonidae

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