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Meaning of chironomid | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.

Equivalents

日本語 揺蚊
ไทย ริ้นน้ำจืด

Examples

“Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.”
“Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

chironomine chironomoid chironomy chiropatagium chiropath chirophobia

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