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  1. Popular name for many insects resembling
  2. gnats, generally divided into biting midges
  3. (family Ceratopogonidae) that suck blood, and
  4. non-biting midges (family Chironomidae). The
  5. larvae of some midges are the `bloodworms' of
  6. stagnant water.
  7.