buffalo gnat

buf·fa·lo gnat

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Definitions of buffalo gnat words

noun buffalo gnat any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae 3
noun buffalo gnat black fly. 1

before 1815

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An Americanism dating back to 1815-25

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