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Mosquito

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Noun

1. mosquito

two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mosquito

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noun plural -toes or -tos
any dipterous insect of the family Culicidae: the females have a long proboscis adapted for piercing the skin of man and animals to suck their blood
See also aedes, anopheles, culex

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Mosquito

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nounWord forms: plural mosˈquitoes or mosˈquitos
any of a large family (Culicidae) of two-winged dipteran insects, the females of which have skin-piercing mouthparts used to extract blood from animals, including humans: some varieties are carriers of certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mosquito

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n. pl. Mosquito or Mos·qui·tos
See Miskito.
n. pl. mos·qui·toes or mos·qui·tos
Any of numerous slender two-winged insects of the family Culicidae, having aquatic larvae and in the adult female a long proboscis, used in most species for sucking blood. Some species of mosquitoes transmit the pathogens that cause certain diseases, notably malaria, yellow fever, and dengue. Also called regionally skeeter. See Note at tater.

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