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punkie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun punkie has 1 sense
- punkie(n = noun.animal) biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky - minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects; Array is a kind of gnat
is a member of ceratopogonidae, family ceratopogonidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
punkie, n. [Orig. unknown.].
A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidæ , found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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