mosquito

Definition of mosquito in English English dictionary: The De Havilland Mosquito, a second world war military aircraft; A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever; Mosquitos are small flying insects which bite people and animals in order to suck their blood. Any of 2,500 dipteran species in the family Culicidae. The females of most species require a blood meal to mature their eggs. Through bloodsucking, females of various species (genera Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex) transmit human diseases, including dengue fever, encephalitis, filariasis, malaria, yellow fever, and elephantiasis. The adult has a long proboscis, a slender, elongated body, and long, fragile legs. The males (and sometimes the females) feed on plant juices. The female's characteristic sound is made by the vibration of thin membranes on the thorax. The females lay their eggs on the surface of a body of usually stagnant water, and the eggs hatch into aquatic larvae (wrigglers). In the far north larvae pass the winter frozen into ice. The wrigglers are eaten by fishes and aquatic insects, the adults by birds and dragonflies. Control measures have included elimination of breeding sites, application of surface films of oil to clog the larvae's breathing tubes, and use of larvicides; Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera; These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain; The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic; The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood; An insect that makes you like flies better; two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals; {i} any of numerous small winged insects whose females suck the blood of animals and humans; {i} culex
mosquito net: A fine net placed around a bed to protect the occupant against mosquitos and the diseases carried by them
mosquito nets: plural form of mosquito net
Mosquito Coast: A region of eastern Nicaragua and northeast Honduras. A British protectorate from 1655 to 1860, it then became an autonomous state known as the Mosquito Kingdom. In 1894 Nicaragua appropriated the territory, and in 1960 the northern part was awarded to Honduras by the International Court of Justice. or Miskito Coast Region along the coast of eastern Nicaragua and Honduras. It comprises a lowland about 40 mi (65 km) wide that skirts the Caribbean Sea for about 225 mi (360 km). It was visited by Christopher Columbus in 1502, but Europeans had little contact with the area until 1655, when England established a protectorate there. It is named for the Miskito Indians. Spain, Nicaragua, and the U.S. disputed England's protectorate until the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850). In 1894 the region was incorporated into Nicaragua, but the northern part was granted to Honduras in 1960 by the International Court of Justice. The chief town is Bluefields, at the mouth of the Escondido River in Nicaragua
mosquito bite: a sting inflicted by a mosquito
mosquito bite: sting from a mosquito
mosquito boat: A PT boat
mosquito craft: {i} PT boat, small fast patrol boat equipped with machine guns and torpedoes (Military)
mosquito fern: Any of several free-floating ferns of the genus Azolla of warm regions, having two-lobed minute leaves arranged in two rows
mosquito fern: small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern Europe
mosquito fish: Any of various fishes that feed on the larvae of mosquitoes, especially a small gambusia (Gambusia affinis) native to the southeast United States but introduced into many parts of the world for use in controlling mosquito populations
mosquito like: similar to a mosquito, resembling a mosquito
mosquito net: A mosquito net is a curtain made of very fine cloth which is hung round a bed in order to keep mosquitoes and other insects away from a person while they are sleeping. A fine net or screen used to keep out mosquitoes. a net placed over a bed as a protection against mosquitoes
mosquito net: a fine net or screen (especially around beds) to protect against mosquitos
mosquito net: coarse cotton fabric used to keep off mosquitoes
malaria mosquito: Any of the closely-related, malaria spreading mosquitos of the genus Anopheles, especially Anopheles gambiae
mosquito.: skeeter
A mosquito: mozzie
Asian tiger mosquito: A mosquito (Aeder albopictus), native to Asia and now present in parts of tropical and subtropical America, that transmits dengue and yellow fever
asian tiger mosquito: striped native of Japan thriving in United States southeast and midwest and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases
common mosquito: common house mosquito
malarial mosquito: transmits the malaria parasite
mosquitoes: plural of mosquito
mosquitos: Plural of mosquito
yellow-fever mosquito: mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue

mosquito

Hyphenation

mos·qui·to

Turkish pronunciation

mıskitō

Pronunciation

/məˈskētō/ /məˈskiːtoʊ/

Etymology

() Spanish mosquito (“small fly”), from mosca (“fly”), + diminutive suffix -ito, from Latin musca

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