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black fly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun black fly has 1 sense
- black fly(n = noun.animal) blackfly, buffalo gnat - small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals; Array is a kind of gnat
is a member of genus simulium, simulium
CIDE DICTIONARY
black fly,
- In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus
Simulium of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests; -- called alsobuffalo gnat . The larvæ are aquatic. It sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals. [WordNet 1.5] - A black plant louse, as the bean aphis (
Aphis fabæ ), which infests e. g. beans and sugar beets; -- called alsobean aphid . [WordNet 1.5]
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