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MOSQUITO
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Irregular inflected form: mosquitoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mosquito" is a kind of...):
dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mosquito"):
gnat ((British usage) mosquito)
Aedes aegypti; yellow-fever mosquito (mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue)
Aedes albopictus; Asian tiger mosquito (striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases)
anopheline (any mosquito of the genus Anopheles)
malaria mosquito; malarial mosquito (transmits the malaria parasite)
common mosquito; Culex pipiens (common house mosquito)
Culex fatigans; Culex quinquefasciatus (widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms)
Holonyms ("mosquito" is a member of...):
Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)
Context examples:
It is transmitted by ticks, flies and mosquitoes.
(Bartonella Infection, NCI Thesaurus)
LACV is spread by mosquitoes and was first identified in the early 1960s.
(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)
He killed other dogs as easily as men killed mosquitoes. (Beauty Smith's eyes lighted up at this, and he licked his thin lips with an eager tongue).
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus that draw blood contaminated with Plasmodium parasites.
(Biosensor promises early malaria diagnosis, SciDev.Net)
When a mosquito infected with malaria parasites bites someone, it transfers the parasites into their bloodstream via its saliva.
(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)
"Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes," whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
By infecting mosquitoes with a common bacterium, scientists have in trials reduced the ability of the insect to transmit dengue, chikungunya and other viral diseases by up to 79 per cent.
(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)
The air was calm, full of the eternal hum of insects, a tropical chorus of many octaves, from the deep drone of the bee to the high, keen pipe of the mosquito.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is almost impossible to eradicate Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the vector for dengue, zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever, said the chair of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Dr. Nísia Trindade.
(Aedes mosquitoes almost impossible to eradicate, says Brazilian researcher, Agência Brasil)
"That is to say," cried Marianne contemptuously, "he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
