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No-see-um

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae), small flies (1–4 mm long); sometimes the species Leptoconops torrens in particular. Southern-US, US
  2. 2
    minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects wordnet
  3. 3
    Any biting bug or insect that is normally too small to see with an unaided eye.

    "Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air. 'No-See-Um's. This is what one employee calls them."

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