FUNGUS GNAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fungus gnat mean? 

• FUNGUS GNAT (noun)
  The noun FUNGUS GNAT has 2 senses:

1. minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings

2. mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation

  Familiarity information: FUNGUS GNAT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNGUS GNAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fungus gnat; sciara; sciarid

Hypernyms ("fungus gnat" is a kind of...):

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fungus gnat"):

armyworm (larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted)

Holonyms ("fungus gnat" is a member of...):

genus Sciara (type genus of the Sciaridae: fungus gnat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fungus gnat" is a kind of...):

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

Holonyms ("fungus gnat" is a member of...):

family Mycetophylidae; Mycetophilidae (fungus gnats)