The AI-powered English dictionary
A taxonomic family within the order Diptera – the chironomids or non-biting midges, a family of true flies widely distributed in aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats. quotations examples
Fossil head capsules of the Chironomidae have proven useful as indicators of past climatic change.
1995, P. D. Armitage, edited by P. S. Cranston and L. C. V. Pinder, The Chironomidae: Biology and Ecology of Non-biting Midges (in English), London: Chapman and Hall, Inc.