Definition of Gnat flower. Meaning of Gnat flower. Synonyms of Gnat flower

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Definition of Gnat flower

Gnat flower
Gnat Gnat, n. [AS. gn[ae]t.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito. 2. Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. Gnat catcher (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. Gnat flower, the bee flower. Gnat hawk (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. Gnat snapper (Zo["o]l.), a bird that catches gnats. Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. --Matt. xxiii. 24.

Meaning of Gnat flower from wikipedia

- a gnat (icon , ˈ , n , æ , t) is any of many species of tiny flying insect s in the pollinated by tiny gnats and have correspondingly small flower s.
- words achis (point) and anthos (flower), referring to the pointed sepals . common australian names include 'pixie-caps,' 'gnat orchid,'
- (or tuber ), which produces flower head consisting of around 150 and gnat s are known to pollinate the flowers, attracted by the fragrance.
- the nettle pouch gall develops in leaf veins, leaf petioles, flower stalks and this structure is caused by the gall midge or gnat
- live flowers: file:flowers frontispiece. jpg , the talking flowers the gnat: alice meets the gnat on her head. he calls alice an old friend,
- culex ('the gnat') when he awakes, the shepherd constructs a heroon to the gnat in the grove and the poet has a flower-catalogue.
- the inflorescence is actually an umbel of flowers, but the the flower is pollinated by fungus gnat s of the genera mycetophilla , sciara
- the flower's nectaries induce insects to enter and crawl around, with pollen generally deposited on the insect's back fungus gnats
- when the orchid prepares to flower, the solitary inflorescence s carried out by small flies or insect s, even underground by termite s or gnat s.
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