mosquito
English Thesaurus
1. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gnat, |
| definition | : | (British usage) mosquito (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aedes albopictus, asian tiger mosquito, |
| definition | : | striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | anopheline, |
| definition | : | any mosquito of the genus Anopheles (noun.animal) |
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