midge : Idioms & Phrases

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Apple midge

  • (Zoöl.) a small dipterous insect (Sciara mali), the larva of which bores in apples.
Webster 1913

biting midge

  • noun minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
    punkie; punkey; punky; no-see-um.
WordNet

Gall midge

  • noun fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
    gallfly; gall gnat.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls.
Webster 1913

Mackerel midge

  • (Zoöl.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
Webster 1913

Wheat midge

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A small two-winged fly (Diplosis tritici) which is very destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America. The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the larvæ suck the juice of the young kernels and when full grown change to pupæ in the earth. (b) The Hessian fly. See under Hessian.
Webster 1913