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Mosquito

mosquito
- 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.
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1.
  ~ n plural mosquitoes or mosquitos a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2.
  (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
3.
   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 ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
4.
  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
5.
  москит, москитный ...
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
6.
  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 ...
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7.
  1. комар (Culicidae) 2. москит (Phlebotomus pappatasi) ...
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8.
  noun; pl. -oes  1) москит; комар  2) attr. противомоскитный ...
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