"noseeum" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened no see them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noseeums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "noseeum (plural noseeums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "no‧see‧um"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bob Cary, The big wilderness canoe manual:",
          "text": "Noseeums will go right through a tent screen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:",
          "text": "The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset."
      ],
      "id": "en-noseeum-en-noun--6oL4~sR",
      "links": [
        [
          "biting midge",
          "biting midge"
        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "punkie"
        },
        {
          "word": "sandfly"
        },
        {
          "word": "no-see-em"
        },
        {
          "word": "no-see-um"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/noʊˈsi.əm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nōsēʹəm",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nəʊˈsiː.əm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nōsēʹəm",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "noseeum"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened no see them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noseeums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "noseeum (plural noseeums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "no‧see‧um"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bob Cary, The big wilderness canoe manual:",
          "text": "Noseeums will go right through a tent screen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:",
          "text": "The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biting midge",
          "biting midge"
        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/noʊˈsi.əm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nōsēʹəm",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nəʊˈsiː.əm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nōsēʹəm",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "punkie"
    },
    {
      "word": "sandfly"
    },
    {
      "word": "no-see-em"
    },
    {
      "word": "no-see-um"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noseeum"
}