mosquitoes (gnats
71order Diptera — noun a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies • Syn: ↑Diptera • Derivationally related forms: ↑dipterous (for: ↑Diptera) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
72chi|ron|o|mid — «ky RON uh mihd», noun. any one of a group of dipterous insects resembling gnats, often forming large swarms in spring: »Fragile chironomids, delicate as mosquitoes, skated on the surface of the water (R. W. G. Hingston). ╂[< New Latin… …
73in´sect|like´ — in|sect «IHN sehkt», noun, adjective. –n. 1. any one of a group of small animals without a backbone and with the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen). Insects have three pairs of legs, and usually two pairs of wings. Flies,… …
74in|sect — «IHN sehkt», noun, adjective. –n. 1. any one of a group of small animals without a backbone and with the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen). Insects have three pairs of legs, and usually two pairs of wings. Flies,… …
75PLAGUES OF EGYPT — The Bible has three accounts of the plagues (maggefot, Ex. 9:14; negʿaim, cf. Ex. 11:1; makkot, cf. I Sam. 4:8; cf. LXX, Targ.) that struck Egypt prior to the Exodus: a full, prose account is given in Exodus 7:14–11:10; 12:29–33, and brief,… …
