Definition of Mosquitoes

1. Noun. (plural of mosquito) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mosquitoes

1. mosquito [n] - See also: mosquito

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosquitoes

mosquito bite
mosquito bites
mosquito boat
mosquito clamp
mosquito control
mosquito craft
mosquito fern
mosquito forceps
mosquito hawk
mosquito net
mosquito nets
mosquitocidal
mosquitocide
mosquitocides
mosquitoed
mosquitoes
mosquitoey
mosquitofish
mosquitofishes
mosquitos
moss
moss-grown
moss-lichen wetland
moss-trooper
moss agate
moss animal
moss campion
moss family
moss frog
moss genus

Literary usage of Mosquitoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"This group includes the familiar insects known as mosquitoes—not a large group, but a very important one, not only from the fact that mosquitoes abound in ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"While he demonstrated that mosquitoes can carry the disease, the variety remained in doubt. Bancroft,2" in 190."), transmitted dengue in two apparently ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"No effort is made to control them, although one man told me that at some seasons the mosquitoes were so bad in places that people took refuge in their beds ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"V.—Author's infecting cage for mosquitoes. netting it forms a cradle; the extremities are prolonged in the form of sleeves. (Fig. V.). ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Evidence is submitted to show that mosquitoes do not fly far and also that ... Upon the very important and interesting topic of ' mosquitoes and malaria,' I ..."

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