WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
mos•qui•to /məˈskitoʊ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -toes, -tos.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- a two-winged insect, the female of which sucks the blood of animals and humans:Some mosquitoes transmit diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
mos•qui•to
(mə skē′tō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -toes, -tos.
mos•qui′to•ey, adj.
Mos•qui•to (mə skē′tō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tos, (esp. collectively) -to.
- any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- Military(cap.) a twin-engined, two-seat British fighter and bomber of World War II, made largely of plywood and having a top speed of 380 mph (610 km/h).
- Latin musca) + -ito diminutive suffix
- Spanish, equivalent. to mosc(a) fly (
- 1575–85
Mos•qui•to (mə skē′tō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tos, (esp. collectively) -to.
- AnthropologyMiskito.
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'mosquito' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Finlay
- Miskito
- Mosquito Coast
- PT boat
- Theroux
- aedes
- anopheles
- baire
- bar
- bloodsucker
- canopy
- crane fly
- culex
- de Havilland
- dory
- dragonfly
- gall midge
- gallinipper
- gnat
- heartworm
- itch
- least killifish
- malaria
- maringouin
- methoprene
- midge
- mosquito boat
- mosquito fleet
- mosquito hawk
- mosquito net
- mosquito netting
- mosquitofish
- mossie
- net
- netting
- nighthawk
- reed
- skeeter
- skeeter hawk
- tiger mosquito
- topminnow
- wheal
- wriggler
- yellow fever
- yellow-fever mosquito