"chironomid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: chironomids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} chironomid (plural chironomids)
  1. (entomology) Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera. Categories (topical): Entomology Categories (lifeform): Culicomorphs Translations (Translations): ippernaq niviortartoq (Greenlandic), ippernaq agiortoq (Greenlandic)

Inflected forms

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