GALL GNAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gall gnat mean? 

• GALL GNAT (noun)
  The noun GALL GNAT has 1 sense:

1. fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants

  Familiarity information: GALL GNAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALL GNAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gall gnat; gall midge; gallfly

Hypernyms ("gall 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 "gall gnat"):

Hessian fly; Mayetiola destructor (small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains)

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

Cecidomyidae; family Cecidomyidae (gall midges)