Associations to the word «Sandfly»

Wiktionary

SANDFLY, noun. Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
SANDFLY, noun. (US) A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).

Dictionary definition

SANDFLY, noun. Any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca