Mosquito Definition

mə-skētō

mosquitoes, mosquitos

noun

Any of a large family (Culicidae) of two-winged dipteran insects, the females of which have skin-piercing mouthparts used to extract blood from animals, including humans: some varieties are carriers of certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.

Webster's New World

verb

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

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pronoun

The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.

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A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Other Word Forms of Mosquito

Noun

Singular:

mosquito

Plural:

mosquitoes, mosquitos

Origin of Mosquito

From Spanish mosquito (“gnat"), diminutive of Spanish mosca (“fly"), from Latin musca (“fly"), from Proto-Indo-European *mÅ«s- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat"). Cognate with Flemish meuzie (“mosquito"), Swedish dialectal mausa (“mosquito"), Lithuanian musÄ— (“a fly"). See also midge.

From Wiktionary
Spanish Portuguese from diminutive of mosca fly from Latin musca

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition