Chironomid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chironomid is a noun meaning (entomology) Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
Meaning
(entomology) Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- chironomids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include larvae, chironomoid, chironomine, midge, chermid, orthoclad.
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