SCIARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sciara mean? 

• SCIARA (noun)
  The noun SCIARA has 1 sense:

1. minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings

  Familiarity information: SCIARA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fungus gnat; sciara; sciarid

Hypernyms ("sciara" 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 "sciara"):

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 ("sciara" is a member of...):

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