sandfly
Noun
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Noun
sandfly (plural sandflies)
- Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
- (New Zealand) A small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.
- (US) A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).
- French: phlébotome
- German: Sandfliege
- Spanish: mosquito simúlido, jején
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