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mosketoe

mosketoe is the obsolete spelling of mosquito.

Meaning of mosquito

Noun

mosquito (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos)

  1. A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.
    • I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    mossie, mozzie, skeeter

See all 4 meanings of mosquito

Forms of mosketoe

pluralmosketoes

Questions about mosketoe

What is mosketoe the obsolete spelling of?
Mosketoe is the obsolete spelling of mosquito.

Words near mosketoe in the dictionary

  1. Moskals
  2. moskeneer
  3. moskeneered
  4. moskeneering
  5. moskeneers
  6. mosketoe
  7. Moskitia
  8. Mosko
  9. moskonfyt
  10. Moskos
  11. Moskovitz

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