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Definition of no-see-um in English: no-see-umnoun nəʊˈsiːəmnōˈsēəm North American A minute bloodsucking insect, especially a biting midge. Example sentencesExamples - Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat.
- After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
- By August, the 20 or so other human visitors who walk this popular (by Arctic standards) route each year should be gone, as should the mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
- These are likely what is commonly referred to as no-see-um or biting midge.
- A single hectare is estimated to be able to produce ten million black flies, no-see-ums and other biting insects!
Definition of no-see-um in US English: no-see-umnounnōˈsēəm North American A minute bloodsucking insect, especially a biting midge. Example sentencesExamples - After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
- These are likely what is commonly referred to as no-see-um or biting midge.
- Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat.
- A single hectare is estimated to be able to produce ten million black flies, no-see-ums and other biting insects!
- By August, the 20 or so other human visitors who walk this popular (by Arctic standards) route each year should be gone, as should the mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
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