A minute bloodsucking insect, especially a biting midge.
〈北美〉蠓（一种微小的吸血虫，尤指一种叮人的摇蚊）
Example sentencesExamples
Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat.
After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
By August, the 20 or so other human visitors who walk this popular (by Arctic standards) route each year should be gone, as should the mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
These are likely what is commonly referred to as no-see-um or biting midge.
A single hectare is estimated to be able to produce ten million black flies, no-see-ums and other biting insects!
Definition of no-see-um in US English:
no-see-um
nounnōˈsēəm
North American
A minute bloodsucking insect, especially a biting midge.
〈北美〉蠓（一种微小的吸血虫，尤指一种叮人的摇蚊）
Example sentencesExamples
After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
These are likely what is commonly referred to as no-see-um or biting midge.
Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat.
A single hectare is estimated to be able to produce ten million black flies, no-see-ums and other biting insects!
By August, the 20 or so other human visitors who walk this popular (by Arctic standards) route each year should be gone, as should the mosquitoes and no-see-ums.