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sandfly
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Sandfly (or sand fly ) is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran (fly) encountered in sandy areas. In the United States , sandfly may refer to certain horse flies that are also known as "greenheads" (family ...
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n. any of various small dipterous flies; blood-sucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis [syn: sand fly , Phlebotomus papatasii ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 Any of various small fly of the genera (taxlink Lutzomyia genus noshow=1) and ''Phlebotomus'' whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis. 2 (context US English) A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae). n. 1 Any of various ...
Usage examples of sandfly.
In his twenty-three years at Chokoloskee, he had never seen sandflies so bad or guavas so plentiful.
You don't expect to be seized by the senior professor in your department when you had nothing more aggressive in mind yourself than charting the continued outmigration of sandflies.
One day, delirious with sandfly fever, I opened the door of the bathroom in my bungalow and was not altogether surprised to see a middle-aged man seated on the toilet writing what appeared to be poetry.