mosquito
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mos·qui·to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●○○ noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable] 
HBIa small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria 蚊子 →5 see picture at 见图 insect
HBIa small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria 蚊子 →5 see picture at 见图 insectExamples from the Corpus
mosquito• It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder.• Hanson anticipates ground spraying to kill adult mosquitoes by midweek.• Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.• We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes!• No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.• Then, mosquitoes and steamy jungle heat along a path that went up and up.• But my purse contained torch, mosquito repellent, passport and all the papers needed to subdue bureaucrats from here to Delhi.Origin mosquito (1500-1600) Spanish mosca “fly”, from Latin muscamos·qui·to nounChineseSyllable
insect flying small the that a Corpus sucks
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mosquito
mos‧qui‧to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/
noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable]
a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria
mos‧qui‧to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/
noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable] Date: 1500-1600
Language: Spanish
Origin: mosca 'fly', from Latin musca
Language: Spanish
Origin: mosca 'fly', from Latin musca
a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria
