Sandfly

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounAny of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.

2.nounA small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.

3.nounA biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).

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