mosquito
IPA: mʌskˈitoʊ
noun
- A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.
- A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador
- (historical) The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
- Archaic form of Miskito. [A member of these people; a Miskito Indian.]
verb
- To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
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Examples of "mosquito" in Sentences
- Mosquito carries some diseases.
- I hate the leeches and mosquitoes the most.
- The adult mosquito develops within the pupa.
- Otherwise, the mosquito is the obvious choice.
- The ecology of genetically modified mosquitoes.
- The range is an extension of the Mosquito Range.
- The bulk of the Mosquito was made of custom plywood.
- In mosquitoes the emergence is in the evening or night.
- The mosquitos used their speed to outpace the butterflys.
- Similar to mosquitoes, fleas suck the blood out of the dog.
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