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night-biters

night-biters is the plural of night-biter.

Meaning of night-biter

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...

Forms of night-biters

alternative formnight biters

Questions about night-biters

What is night-biters the plural of?
Night-biters is the plural of night-biter.

Words near night-biters in the dictionary

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

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