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mosquitoes

mosquitoes is the plural 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

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Noun capitalized: Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes

  1. (plural) plural of Mosquito

Phrases with mosquitoes

Questions about mosquitoes

What is mosquitoes the plural of?
Mosquitoes is the plural of mosquito.
What part of speech is mosquitoes?
Mosquitoes is a noun.

Words near mosquitoes in the dictionary

  1. mosquito-eaters
  2. mosquitocidal
  3. mosquitocide
  4. mosquitocides
  5. mosquitoed
  6. mosquitoes
  7. mosquitoey
  8. mosquitofish
  9. mosquitofishes
  10. mosquitogenic
  11. mosquitohawk

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