sandfly

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
2. noun A small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.
3. noun A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).

Similar words

sand fly phlebotomus papatasii phlebotomine blackfly forest fly leptophlebiid bat fly lake fly sandflea horsefly

Often followed by

fever bites vector bite vectors and bay species phlebotomus