"pium" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: piums [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pium (plural piums)
  1. A black fly, a bloodsucking insect of the genus Simulium, found in Brazil.
    Sense id: en-pium-en-noun-A47mzu6X Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 97 2 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 2 1

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[…] piums had no preference on the human body. They bit wherever they could touch skin. If the very sensitive felt them biting and ran a hand over, say, the face, the tiny piums calmly sacrificed their lives to their gluttony."
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          "ref": "2010, R.M.W. Dixon, I Am a Linguist: With a Foreword by Peter Matthews, page 19",
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