SCIARA
Dictionary entry overview: What does sciara mean? • SCIARA (noun)
The noun SCIARA has 1 sense:
1. minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings
Familiarity information: SCIARA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SCIARA (noun)
Meaning:
Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
fungus gnat; sciara; sciarid
Hypernyms ("sciara" is a kind of...):
dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sciara"):
armyworm (larva of fungus gnat; march in large companies in regular order)
Holonyms ("sciara" is a member of...):
genus Sciara (type genus of the Sciaridae: fungus gnat)
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