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Definition of 'gnat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) gnat
any of certain small flies, esp. the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE gnæt(t), c. dial. G Gnatze)

Definition of 'gnat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) gnat
any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

2. (noun) gnat
(British usage) mosquito

Definition of 'gnat'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) gnat
a tiny flying insect
gnats flying around our heads

Definition of 'gnat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gnat
a blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito

2. (noun) gnat
any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc

Translation of 'gnat'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a very small, usually blood-sucking, fly.
Afrikaans: muggie	Arabic: ذُبابَه مّصّاصَة دم	Bulgarian: комар
Brazilian: mosquito	Czech: komár	German: die Mücke
Danish: myg	Greek: σκνίπα	Spanish: jején
Estonian: sääsk	Farsi: پشه	Finnish: sääski
French: moucheron	Hebrew: ברחש	Hindi: एक प्रकार की खून चुसने वा
Croatian: mušica, komarac	Hungarian: szúnyog	Indonesian: agas
Icelandic: (bit)mÿ; moskító	Italian: moscerino	Japanese: ぶよ
Korean: 각다귀	Lithuanian: uodas	Latvian: ods
Malay: agas	Dutch: mug; muskiet	Norwegian: knott, mygg
Polish: komar	Persian: پشه	Pashto: يوه كوچنۍ حشره چې دوه وزر
Portuguese: melga	Romanian: ţânţar	Russian: комар
Slovak: komár	Slovenian: komar	Serbian: komarac
Swedish: mygga, knott	Thai: แมลงเล็ก ๆ	Turkish: tatarcık
Taiwanese: 蚋(一種吸血小蠅)	Ukrainian: комар	Urdu: کوئی اڑنے والا چھوٹا کیڑا
Vietnamese: muỗi nhỏ	Chinese: 蠓虫，蚊，蚋
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