chironomid en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Translingual Chironomidae.
Meanings
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Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
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 14, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| chironomids | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (5)
la chironomida (Translations) · kl ippernaq agiortoq (Translations) · pl ochotka (Translations) · th ริ้นน้ำจืด (Translations) · kl ippernaq niviortartoq (Translations)