mosquito
nounHow many syllables in mosquito?
There are 3 syllables in the word mosquito.How to pronounce mosquito:
Definition of mosquito:
- mosquito (noun):
- two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
- any of a family (culicidae) of dipteran flies with females that have a set of slender organs in the proboscis adapted to puncture the skin of animals and to suck their blood and that are in some cases vectors of serious diseases
Synonyms for mosquito:
aedes aegypti
aedes albopictus
anopheline
asian tiger mosquito
common mosquito
culex fatigans
culex pipiens
culex quinquefasciatus
culicidae
dipteran
dipteron
dipterous insect
family culicidae
gnat
malarial mosquito
two-winged insects
yellow-fever mosquito
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