Mosquito
[mɒ'skiːtəʊ] or [mə'skito]
Definition
(noun.) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
n. a biting gnat common in tropical countries:—pl. Mosqui′toes.—Mosquito canopy curtain net an arrangement of netting set over a bed in a window &c. to keep out mosquitoes.
Typist: Vilma
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see mosquitoes in your dreams, you will strive in vain to remain impregnable to the sly attacks of secret enemies. Your patience and fortune will both suffer from these designing persons. If you kill mosquitoes, you will eventually overcome obstacles and enjoy fortune and domestic bliss.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A small insect designed by God to make us think better of flies.
Typed by Gilda
Examples
- The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Marie disposed herself on a lounge, under a silken mosquito curtain, and was soon sound asleep. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Down below there were mosquito marshes and canals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I held the mosquito netting in my hands. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This is mosquito netting. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This is an elegant preparation to rub on the hands and face where flies, mosquitos, gnats, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That is to say, cried Marianne contemptuously, he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Typed by Jed