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buffalo gnat

noun



buffalo gnat

noun

  1. any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae Also calledblack fly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of buffalo gnat1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

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