MOSQUITO (mosquitoes)

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Irregular inflected form: mosquitoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mosquito mean? 

• MOSQUITO (noun)
  The noun MOSQUITO has 1 sense:

1. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

  Familiarity information: MOSQUITO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOSQUITO (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:

Nouns denoting animals

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 

Female mosquitoes have nerve cells called cpA neurons that have a receptor to detect carbon dioxide.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

You can get it if an infected mosquito bites you.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

The virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) or TICKS.

(Epidemic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

When a mosquito bites a person, the parasites first infect the liver, where they live for about seven days.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Words used to describe itchy pain include 'like poison oak' and 'like a mosquito bite.'

(NPS - Tell Us How Itchy Your Pain Feels, NCI Thesaurus)

In the United States, some mosquitoes spread West Nile virus.

(Insect Bites and Stings, NIH)

Barmah forest viruses are transmitted mainly via the bite of infected mosquitoes.

(Barmah Forest Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

An essential oil that smells like roses is taken from the leaves and used in perfume, in mosquito repellants, and in aromatherapy to treat skin problems and to reduce stress.

(Geranium, NCI Dictionary)

It is transmitted mechanically by biting flies, mosquitoes, and midges, and iatrogenically through unsterilized equipment.

(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is transmitted by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, especially A. aegypti.

(Dengue Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)