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This will help cut down on the fungal gnats that always seem to swarm around a plant that is transitioned indoors from outside.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
For once, the entity piercing through The View's airspace was not a phantom noise, a doomed gnat, an unknown spectral entity, or Joy Behar's cell phone, but rather the thrusting pelvis of a ripped stripper.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
At just one or two centimeters across, each plant is the size of a fingernail and has leaves as small as gnats.
—Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
They’re caused by female gnats of the Ceratopogonidae family.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 July 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English gnætt; akin to Old English gnagan to gnaw
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of gnat was
before the 12th century
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“Gnat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnat. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting two-winged flies
Medical Definition
gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting dipteran flies (as a midge or blackfly)
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