1. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
   - dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, skeeter hawk 
2. Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
   - nighthawk, bullbat

Derived forms: mosquito hawks

Type of: caprimulgid, goatsucker, nightjar, odonate

Part of: Chordeiles, genus Chordeiles

Encyclopedia: Mosquito hawk

• peripeteia
• peripetia
• peripety
• peripheral
• peripheral device
• peripheral nervous system
• peripheral vision
• peripherally
• periphery
• periphrasis
• periphrastic
• periphrastically
• Periplaneta
• Periplaneta americana
• Periplaneta australasiae
• periplasm
• periplasmic space
• Periploca
• Periploca graeca
• peripteral
• perique
• perirhinal
• periscope
• periscopic
• periselene