midge

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  1. noun Any of various gnatlike flies of the family Chironomidae, found worldwide and frequently occurring in swarms near ponds and lakes.
  2. noun Any of various similar dipteran insects, such as the biting midges of the family Ceratopogonidae.
  3. noun A little person.

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  • Orange wheat blossom midge is another concern as ears come out. —  FWi - All News
  • Monitor the wheat crops at dusk on still evenings when the midge will be making flights. —  FWi - All News
  • It is the zebra midge, a simple fly that imitates the most abundant insect life in this stream. —  Berks county news
  • Larva of Gall-midge (_Contarinia nasturtii 68 20. —  The Life-Story of Insects
  • In the larva of the harlequin-midge (Chironomus) as described by Miall and Hammond (1900) the brain is situated in the thorax, and the imaginal discs for the head, eyes, and feelers of the adult lie in close association with it, though they arise from inpushings of the larval head. —  The Life-Story of Insects
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mycg.

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  1. from Middle English mydge, migge, mygge, myge, from Anglo-Saxon mycg, mygge, micge, a midge, gnat, = Old Saxon muggiā = Middle Dutch mugghe, Dutch mug = Middle Low German mugge, Low German mügge = Old High German muccā, muggā, Middle High German mucke, mücke, mugge, mügge, a midge, fly, German mücke, a midge, dial. a fly, = Icelandic my¯ = Swedish mygg, mygga = Danish myg, a midge, = Polish Russian mukha = Bohemian maucha, a fly; prob. literally ‘buzzer’ (cf. the similar literally sense of breeze, a gadfly, and of humblebee), akin to Greek μυκᾱσθαι, low; cf. also Latin mugire, low (see mugient), Greek μύζειν, mutter; an ult. imitative root. The L. musca = Greek μυῑα, etc., a fly, is not related: see Musca.
 

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