All midge synonyms
midge
M m noun midge
- gnome — GNU Network Object Model Environment
- pygmy — Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
- bantam — A bantam is a breed of small chicken.
- runt — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- lilliputian — extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
- manikin — a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- gnat — any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- mosquito — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- fly — to move through the air using wings.
- firefly — any nocturnal beetle of the family Lampyridae, characterized by a soft body with a light-producing organ at the rear of the abdomen.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- no-see-um — punkie.
- punkie — any of the minute biting gnats of the family Ceratopogonidae.
- mozzie — (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Alternative form of mossie.