fungus gnat

Questions about fungus gnat

What does fungus gnat mean?

fungus gnat means "minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fungus gnat?

Close synonyms include sciara, sciarid. 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 fungus gnat a common word?

fungus gnat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.