mosquito

DEFINITIONS OF: mosquito

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(British usage) mosquito; Aedes aegypti, yellow-fever mosquito
mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue; Aedes albopictus, Asian tiger mosquito
striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases; anopheline
any mosquito of the genus Anopheles; malaria mosquito, malarial mosquito
transmits the malaria parasite; Culex pipiens, common mosquito
common house mosquito; Culex fatigans, Culex quinquefasciatus
widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms

Type of:: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects
insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

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