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musquito

musquito 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Musquito

Musquito

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Miskito.

Forms of musquito

pluralmusquitos
pluralmusquitoes

Questions about musquito

What is musquito the obsolete spelling of?
Musquito is the obsolete spelling of mosquito.
What part of speech is musquito?
Musquito is a proper noun.

Words near musquito in the dictionary

  1. musquetoon
  2. musquetoons
  3. musquetos
  4. musquetry
  5. musquets
  6. musquito
  7. musquitoes
  8. musquitos
  9. Musquiz
  10. Musquizes
  11. musrol

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