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Sciaridae

noun

fungus gnats

• Syn: ↑family Sciaridae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Nematocera, ↑suborder Nematocera

• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Sciara

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\\sīˈarəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Sciara, type genus + -idae

: a family of minute usually dark or blackish two-winged flies some of which are destructive to mushrooms and to seedlings of higher plants — see fungus gnat, sciara; compare mycetophilidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.