mosquito
mos·quito (mə skēt′ō)
noun pl. -·toes or -·tos
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
Etymology: Sp & Port, dim. of mosca < L musca, a fly: see midge
mosquito
n.
Types of mosquitoes include: anopheles, culex, aedes, stegomyia, trichopronsoon, corethra, psorophora, mansonia;
Converse of object
- malaria-carrying: The Romans became practiced at draining marshes to rid areas of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
- repel: Citronella, lavender or tea tree oils applied to the pulse points will repel mosquitoes.
- infect: By infecting mosquitoes with fungi, they can drastically reduce transmission of the disease, which kills well over a million people each year.
- kill: In the past, insecticides like DDT have been used to kill the mosquitoes that transmit malaria.
- bite: For day time biting mosquitoes this advice applies dawn to dusk.
Preposition: at
- bay: They also sell the best products to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Converse of subject
- bite: For in July 1935, Berg was bitten by a mosquito.
- transmit: Occasionally, the virus is transmitted by the mosquitoes to humans.
Adjective modifier
- malarial: Crucially, thanks to the low oxygen content of the local waters, the malarial mosquito is absent, too.
- malaria-carrying: In houses in this area, people are bitten almost once a night by a malaria-carrying mosquito.
- infected: How many times could you have been bitten to catch malaria from an infected mosquito?
Modifies a noun
- larva: Coming direct from a cave he found no mosquito larva or sea monsters present.
- bite: Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years.
- repellant: Don't forget to take your anti malaria tablets and put mosquito repellant on during game drives.
- net: Using a mosquito net in an area where malaria is present is a good idea.
- repellent: Termites are probably the most efficient natural mosquito repellents fund in nature.
- ringtone: Barclays estimates the mosquito mp3 ringtone age of Beverly Hills Cop.
Noun used with modifier
- anopheles: A a tsetse fly B a tick bite C a female anopheles mosquito D a male mosquito For help have a look here.
- aegypti: The aedes aegypti mosquito carries the virus from person to person.
- malaria: The molecule prevents Plasmodium, the malaria mosquito, from moving from the mosquito's gut to its salivary glands.
A story with a moral appended is like the bite of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
I am perfectly aware that the mosquito and sandfly have a purpose in this world, but why don't they attend to it? Their destiny is to keep down microscopic insectsbut their sphere of useiswhentheyareinthegrub state.Why don't they stick at that and not trouble innocent unoffending prospectors who can't carry a curtain?
But a word stung him like a mosquito For what they hear, they repeat!
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