Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - mosquito
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Mosquito
mosquito
noun (plural -toes; also -tos) Etymology: Spanish, diminutive of mosca fly, from Latin musca — more at midge Date: circa 1583 any of a family (Culicidae) of dipteran flies with females that have a set of slender organs in the proboscis adapted to puncture the skin of animals and to suck their blood and that are in some cases vectors of serious diseases • ~ey adjective
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n. (pl. -oes) any of various slender biting insects, esp. of the genus Culex, Anopheles, or Aedes, the female of which punctures the skin of humans and other animals with a long proboscis to suck their blood and transmits diseases such as filariasis and malaria. Phrases and idioms mosquito-boat US a motor torpedo-boat. mosquito-net a net to keep off mosquitoes. Etymology: Sp. & Port., dimin. of mosca f. L musca fly ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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комар; pl кровососущие комары (Culicidae) – anopheline mosquito – brown salt-marsh mosquito – California salt-marsh mosquito – common malaria mosquito – malaria mosquito – northern house mosquito – northwest coast mosquito – southern house mosquito – spotted-wing mosquito – tiger mosquito ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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(mosquitoes, or mosquitos) Mosquitos are small flying insects which bite people and animals in order to suck their blood. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n plural mosquitoes or mosquitos a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1583, from Sp. mosquito "little gnat," dim. of mosca "fly," from L. musca "fly," from PIE base *mu-, perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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