Meanings
plural chironomids
- biologyAny of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.
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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.
2012 January 28, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46Synonyms: non-biting midge
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
Origin
- translingualChironomidae
- translingualChironomidae
- Englishchironomid
Borrowed from Translingual Chironomidae.
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Latin chironomida
- chironomidaTranslations
Polish ochotka
- ochotkaTranslations
Thai ริ้นน้ำจืด
- ริ้นน้ำจืด (hín-nám-jʉ̀ʉt)Translations
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chironomid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chironomid
“chironomid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chironomid. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chironomid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chironomid.
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