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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Insects
mosquitomos‧qui‧to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●○○ noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable] mosquito.jpg HBIa small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria
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mosquito• It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder.• Hanson anticipates ground spraying to kill adult mosquitoes by midweek.• Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.• We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes!• No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.• Then, mosquitoes and steamy jungle heat along a path that went up and up.• But my purse contained torch, mosquito repellent, passport and all the papers needed to subdue bureaucrats from here to Delhi.
Origin mosquito (1500-1600) Spanish mosca “fly”, from Latin musca
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