MOSQUITO (mosquitoes)

Pronunciation (US):

• MOSQUITO (noun)
  The noun MOSQUITO has 1 sense:

1. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

  Familiarity information: MOSQUITO used as a noun is very rare.

• MOSQUITO (noun)

Meaning:

Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mosquito" is a kind 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mosquito"):

gnat ((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)

common mosquito; Culex pipiens (common house mosquito)

Culex fatigans; Culex quinquefasciatus (widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms)

Holonyms ("mosquito" is a member of...):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)