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Definition of gnat owl

gnat owl
Gnat Gnat, n. [AS. gn[ae]t.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito. 2. Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. Gnat catcher (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. Gnat flower, the bee flower. Gnat hawk (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. Gnat snapper (Zo["o]l.), a bird that catches gnats. Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. --Matt. xxiii. 24.

Meaning of gnat owl from wikipedia

- depressed. During the train ride, Alice hears the Gnat mentioning topics he believes would make good jokes. The Gnat seems to love jokes; however, he doesn't like...
- Harry Secombe "Jacques, a Penniless French Mouse", Peter Sellers "Nathaniel Gnat", Twiggy "Wilfred the Weasel", Keith Mic**** "Dilys the Dachshund", Harry...
- It was used extensively in 2010s pop music. In the slavishly playlisted, gnat's-attention-span world of daytime radio, the Whoop has become a signalling...
- can go home. She boards a train to the fourth square, where she meets the gnat and then Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who teach her the proper way to "Shake...
- Clear Lake gnat hatches start anytime from March through June, depending on weather. Before pesticide use began in the 1940s, the gnat was so abundant...
- all times an almost insufferable nuisance; the common house-fly, with the gnat, vexes men, while gad-flies of every description tsetse, œstru, hippoboscida...
- the new Nationals ****ociation, he pla**** for the class A Savannah Sand Gnats before being promoted to the A-Advanced Potomac Nationals. He started 2006...
- Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd ****ign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet." In English, two palindromic novels have been...
- spider Zonia zonia — zonia skipper Zygoneura zygoneura — a dark-winged fungus gnat Achatina achatina — African giant snail, giant tiger land snail Agagus agagus...
- videos. Following the departure of the South Atlantic League's Savannah Sand Gnats for Columbia, South Carolina, on September 22, 2015, the Coastal Plain League...