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Mosquito

Mos-qui′to

(mŏs-kē-tō̍)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Mosquitoes
(mŏs-kē-tōz)
.
[Sp.
mosquito
, fr.
mosca
fly, L.
musca
. Cf.
Musket
.]
(Zool.)
Any one of various species of gnats of the genus
Culex
and allied genera. 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. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called
wigglers
, are aquatic.
[Written also
musquito
.]
Mosquito bar
,
Mosquito net
,
a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, – used for beds and windows.
–
Mosquito fleet
,
a fleet of small vessels.
–
Mosquito hawk
(Zool.)
,
a dragon fly; – so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.
–
Mosquito netting
,
a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.

Definition 2024

Mosquito

Mosquito

See also: mosquito

English

Proper noun

Mosquito

  1. The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
  2. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador

Etymology 2

Noun

Mosquito ‎(plural Mosquitoes or Mosquitos)

  1. Archaic form of Miskito.

mosquito

mosquito

See also: Mosquito

English

Aedes aegypti biting a human.

Noun

mosquito ‎(plural mosquitos or mosquitoes)

  1. 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.

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Verb

mosquito ‎(third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)

  1. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

Galician

Noun

mosquito m ‎(plural mosquitos)

  1. mosquito

Old Spanish

Etymology

From mosca, mosco ‎(“fly”) +‎ -ito.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mosˈki.to]

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

  1. diminutive of mosca; a mosquito.
    • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v.
      […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ¬ de todas maneras de moſcas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiédo ſobreſta piedra la útud de fiǵa de moſq́to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.
      […] he will be kept from the harm of mosquitos and all manners of flies that are venomous or that bite. And this will happen more when over this stone descends the virtue of the figure of the mosquito, or that of another one of the flies we mentioned.

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

From mosca +‎ -ito

Pronunciation

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

  1. mosquito

Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of mosca

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mosˈkito/

Noun

mosquito m ‎(plural mosquitos)

  1. mosquito
  2. gnat
  3. diminutive of mosco, small fly

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