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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