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单词 pium gnat
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pium gnat
A South American buffalo gnat, Simulium pertinax. Also pium fly, pium gnat.
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1836 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 6 19 The waters of the Cababuri are muddy, but abound in fish, and the banks with game; there is also an annoying insect, called pium.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vii. 333 We made acquaintance..with a new insect pest, the Piúm, a minute fly.
1927 W. M. McGovern Jungle Paths & Inca Ruins iv. 51 The most obvious of the insect pests were the little piums... Their sting gave more than a momentary discomfort.
1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure i. xvii. 145 By day the worst pest was the pium fly, a little black creature the size of a midge, which covered your hands and anything else it could get at with small hard red pimples.
1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 106/2 Several dozen tiny pium gnats, whose bite leaves a small blood blister that itches terribly, were trying to feed at my ankles.
1994 J. Updike Brazil xxiv. 198 José's head like a split gourd leaked its juicy contents, attracting hundreds, no, thousands, of buzzing little eye-lickers, pium flies, the winged blood-suckers called borrachudos, and sand flies.
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