Definitions for Mosquito

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Mosquito mos·qui·to

Spelling: [muh-skee-toh]

IPA: /məˈski toʊ/

Mosquito is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in Mosquito (imooqstu).

Definitions for Mosquito

noun

1. any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
2. (initial capital letter) Military. a twin-engined, two-seat British fighter and bomber of World War II, made largely of plywood and having a top speed of 380 miles per hour (610 km/h).
3. Miskito.
4. a member of an American Indian people of northeastern Nicaragua and adjacent areas of Honduras.
5. the language of the Miskito.

Origin of Mosquito

1575-85; Spanish, equivalent to mosc(a) fly (Latin musca) + -ito diminutive suffix

Examples for Mosquito

In contrast to the veteran Anopheles, the Aedes mosquito did not arrive until the 1980s.

I chose it for its metaphorical resonance, but the mosquito bite theory might be the worse.

You know as much about them as this d—— mosquito that is just now biting my nose.

Then for a time he slept beneath the mosquito bar in his tent.

And during these days the bunkhouse at mosquito Bend seethed with revolt.

What she concluded is that mosquito attractiveness is all relative.

Its path here is almost comic: evidence indicates that the mosquito was brought because of the international used tire trade.

On another trip, a defiant caiman (a South American crocodile) devours his mosquito net.

You slap angrily at the place, and hurt yourself, but not the mosquito.

The mosquito, quite ignored, would then have gone on in his deadly work.