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buffalo gnat

noun

  1. black fly.

buffalo gnat

noun

  1. Also called: black fly. any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae

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Word History and Origins

Origin of buffalo gnat1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

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