Midge

Definitions

1. Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
2. A female given name of rare usage, variant of Madge.
3. A small, short or insignificant person.
   Northern-England, Scotland
4. Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge.

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Examples

“"I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!"”

“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.”

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