mosquito
Syllables: mos·qui·to/mɒˈskiː.təʊ//məsˈki.toʊ/
mosquito noun: 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.
Noun (1)
mosquito (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos)
- 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
- We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461
Verb
mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)
- To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
Proper noun capitalized: Mosquito
Mosquito
Noun (2) capitalized: Mosquito
Mosquito
- The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
Noun (3) capitalized: Mosquito
Mosquito (plural Mosquitoes or Mosquitos)
- Dated form of Miskito.
mosquito meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mosquito in Hindi
- small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood
- मच्छर macchar, मच्छड़ macchaṛ, मशक maśak
mosquito in Tamil
- small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood
- கொசு kocu, உலங்கு ulaṅku, நுளம்பு nuḷampu, ஒலுங்கு oluṅku, சூளான் cūḷāṉ, சுள்ளான் cuḷḷāṉ
mosquito in Marathi
- small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood
- डास ḍās
mosquito in Urdu
- small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood
- مَچَّھر macchar, پَشَّہ paśśa
More languagesFewer languages
- mosquito in Bengali
- মশা mośa
- mosquito in Telugu
- దోమ dōma
- mosquito in Malayalam
- കൊതുക് kotuk
- mosquito in Kannada
- ನುಸಿಸೊಳ್ಳೆ nusisoḷḷe, ಸೊಳ್ಳೆ soḷḷe
- mosquito in Punjabi
- ਮੱਛਰ macchar
- mosquito in Gujarati
- મચ્છર macchar
- mosquito in Odia
- ମଶାକୁ
- mosquito in Sanskrit
- मशक maśaka
- mosquito in Assamese
- মহ moh
- mosquito in Pashto
- غوماشه ǧumãša, مياسه myãsa, مياشه myãša
- mosquito in Tagalog
- lamok
- mosquito in Arabic
- بَعُوضَة baʕūḍa, نَامُوسَة nāmūsa, برْغش barḡaš
- mosquito in Malay
- nyamuk
- mosquito in Indonesian
- nyamuk
- mosquito in Thai
- ยุง yung
- mosquito in Vietnamese
- muỗi
- mosquito in Myanmar
- ခြင် hkrang
Examples of mosquito in a sentence
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.
Synonyms of mosquito
Forms of mosquito
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mosquitoes |
| plural | mosquitos |
| plural | Mosquitoes |
| plural | Mosquitos |
| alternative form (obsolete) | muskito |
| alternative form (obsolete) | musquito |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mosquitos |
| present participle | mosquitoing |
| past participle | mosquitoed |
| past | mosquitoed |
Origin of mosquito
Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), dialectal Swedish mausa (“fly”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”) and Sicilian muschitta (“midge”). See also midge. First attested in the 1580s.
Words formed from mosquito
- anopheles mosquito
- antimosquito
- Asian tiger mosquito
- common mosquito
- common house mosquito
- culex mosquito
- house mosquito
- malaria mosquito
- marsh mosquito
- mosquital
- mosquitarium
- mosquiticide
- mosquito bar
- mosquito bite
- mosquitocide
- Mosquito Coast
- mosquito coil
- mosquito drawers
- mosquito dunk
- mosquito-eater
- mosquitoey
- mosquito fern
- mosquito fish
- mosquitofish
- mosquito fleet
- mosquito flower
- mosquitogenic
- mosquito hawk
- mosquitoish
- mosquito larva
- mosquitoless
- mosquito net
- mosquito netting
- mosquito party
- mosquito plant
- mosquito press
- mosquitoproof
- mosquito wire
- nail mosquito
- neato mosquito
- salt-marsh mosqito
- skeeto
- snow mosquito
- tea mosquito
- tiger mosquito
- yellow-fever mosquito
Phrases with mosquito
- mosquito bars
- mosquito nets
- mosquito bites
- mosquito coils
- mosquito dunks
- mosquito eater
- mosquito ferns
- mosquito hawks
- mosquito eaters
- mosquito fleets
- Mosquito Island
- mosquito parties
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Words that rhyme with mosquito
Questions about mosquito
- What does mosquito mean?
- Mosquito means 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.
- What is mosquito in Hindi?
- Mosquito in Hindi is मच्छर (macchar), मच्छड़ (macchaṛ), मशक (maśak). See Mosquito meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mosquito?
- Mosquito can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mosquito?
- Mosquito is pronounced /mɒˈskiː.təʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mosquito?
- The plural of mosquito is mosquitoes.
Words near mosquito in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mosquito (page history and authors); Mosquito (page history and authors); mosquito (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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