Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fungus_gnat

2 senses of fungus gnat

Sense 1
fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid -- (minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

Sense 2
fungus gnat -- (mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)