- LA Times Crossword
- May 17 2022
- Puny pest
Puny pest
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Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | GNAT | Puny pest | LA Times |
Definition
• | A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito. |
• | Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. |
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