"chironomid" meaning in English

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          "text": "Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(entomology) Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera."
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