Small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals.
1Buffalo gnats and tsetse were very troublesome on this march, owing to the numerous herds of game in the vicinity.
2As it was, she and Charity were both engulfed in a gritty brown cloud of powdered earth, undefined filth and bothersome, ever-present buffalo gnats.
Translations for buffalo gnat