mosquito

UK /mɒˈskiː.təʊ/ US /məsˈki.toʊ/

noun 3verb 1name 1

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(noun.)

QUANT

swarm

VERB + MOSQUITO

swat

I swatted at the mosquito buzzing around my head, but it flew away quickly.

MOSQUITO + VERB

fly | buzz, hum, whine | bite

carry sth, spread sth

Mosquitoes spread dengue fever to thousands of people in tropical regions every year.

MOSQUITO + NOUN

bite

My daughter woke up covered in mosquito bites from playing outside yesterday afternoon.

larva

A mosquito larva develops in water before becoming an adult insect.

net/netting | repellent

PHRASES

a strain of mosquito

Definitions

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.

I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.

We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.

verb

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

name

A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Example Bank

I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.

Wiktionary

We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.

Wiktionary

Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overfl

Wiktionary

I've got mosquito bites all over my arm.

Tatoeba · #6140

I got a lot of mosquito bites.

Tatoeba · #23594

Don't scratch your mosquito bite. It'll get inflamed.

Tatoeba · #23595

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In some senses, mosquito is marked as dated, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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