BLACK FLY Synonyms

• a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

• a small amount of solid food; a mouthful

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a light informal meal

• (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait

• wit having a sharp and caustic quality

• a strong odor or taste property

• the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

• a portion removed from the whole

• to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• penetrate or cut, as with a knife

• deliver a sting to

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

• (British usage) mosquito

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

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

• blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets

• small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals

• small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals