Definitions for mosquitoes

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mosquitoes mos·qui·to

Spelling: [muh-skee-toh]

IPA: /məˈski toʊ/

Mosquitoes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in mosquitoes (eimooqsstu).

Definitions for mosquitoes

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 mosquitoes

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

Examples for mosquitoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What she concluded is that mosquito attractiveness is all relative.

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

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

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