Definitions
two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.”
“Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Biting summer insect”8 letters
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