Akademik

sciara

noun

minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings

• Syn: ↑fungus gnat, ↑sciarid

• Hypernyms: ↑dipterous insect, ↑two-winged insects, ↑dipteran, ↑dipteron

• Hyponyms: ↑armyworm

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Sciara

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\\ˈsīərə\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek skiaros shady, dark-colored, from skia shadow

1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Sciaridae) of minute and usually blackish fungus gnats typically with highly gregarious larvae that are often destructive to mushrooms and seedlings — see armyworm

2. -s : any insect of the genus Sciara

Useful english dictionary. 2012.