How many syllables in mosquito?

There are 3 syllables in the word mosquito.

How to pronounce 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

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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