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

2 senses of gnat

Sense 1
gnat -- (any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies)
       => 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
gnat -- ((British usage) mosquito)
       => mosquito -- (two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals)