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night-biter

Syllables: night-bi·terUK/naɪt ˈbaɪtə/US/naɪt ˈbaɪtɚ/

night-biter noun: an animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.

night-biter: an animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night
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Noun

night-biter (plural night-biters)

  1. An animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.
    • The anopheles associated by experience with malaria are, in the main, house-haunters and night-biters, and at night their victim mainly spends his time in a house, circumstances which make it likely that the house is important in the transmission of malaria.1931 March 6, Clayton [Arbuthnot] Lane, Housing and Malaria: A Critical Summary of the Literature Dealing with the Subject (Series of League of Nations Publications; 3), Geneva: League of Nations...
    • She [the mosquito] may be a night-biter or a day-biter. She may give an alarm: a hum made by the beating of her wings. Or she may be absolutely silent.1954 June, Gardner Soule, “How to fight mosquitoes”, in Popular Science, volume 164, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 112

Forms of night-biter

pluralnight-biters
alternative formnight biter

Questions about night-biter

What does night-biter mean?
Night-biter means an animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.
What part of speech is night-biter?
Night-biter is a noun.
How do you pronounce night-biter?
Night-biter is pronounced /naɪt ˈbaɪtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of night-biter?
The plural of night-biter is night-biters.

Words near night-biter in the dictionary

  1. night-and-days
  2. night-ape
  3. night-apes
  4. night-bat
  5. night-bats
  6. night-biter
  7. night-biters
  8. night-blind
  9. night-blooming cereus
  10. night-blooming jasmine
  11. night-blooming jasmines

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