mosquito
A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.
Kinds of mosquito
- yellow-fever mosquito
- malaria mosquito
- common mosquito
Word history
From Latin "musca" (fly).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mosquito” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.