CHIRONOMIDS Synonyms

• noisy like the sound of a bee

• two-winged insects characterized by active flight

• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent

• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth

• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

• fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect

• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

• travel through the air; be airborne

• move quickly or suddenly

• operate an airplane

• transport by aeroplane

• cause to fly or float

• be dispersed or disseminated

• change quickly from one emotional state to another

• pass away rapidly

• travel in an airplane

• display in the air or cause to float

• run away quickly

• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft

• hit a fly

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind

• very fast; as if with wings

• any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

• (British usage) mosquito

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

• minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water

• A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

• an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult