What does buffalo gnat mean?

buffalo gnat means "small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals".

What is another word for buffalo gnat?

Close synonyms include blackfly, black fly. 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 buffalo gnat a common word?

buffalo gnat 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.

buffalo gnat — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
Synonymsblackfly black fly
Broadergnat
Part ofSimulium

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What does buffalo gnat mean?: buffalo gnat means "small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals".
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