Sandfly Moderate

Sandfly has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis

sand fly sandfly Phlebotomus papatasii

Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.

See Also

phlebotomus leishmaniasis biting midge no see um punkie vertebrate sandflies fly

Related Terms

phlebotomus leishmaniasis biting midge no see um punkie vertebrate sandflies fly midget ceratopogonidae midge sand flea austrosimulium

Broader Terms (hypernyms)

gnat

Rhyming Words

fly oxfly refly mcfly befly barfly liefly naifly owlfly selfly wolfly apefly gadfly mayfly waffly bobfly dayfly ruffly medfly chefly

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