| 单词 | mosquito |
| 释义 | mosquito (once / 924 pages) n A mosquito is a tiny stinging insect that leaves an itchy welt on your skin. Between its annoying bites and its ability to spread disease, the mosquito is not the most popular of insects (unlike the fair ladybug). Male mosquitoes feed on nectar and live only a few days, while females need to feed on blood in order for their eggs to develop and be laid. Female mosquitoes, therefore, can be a nuisance on summer evenings, and can even be downright dangerous in tropical areas where they often spread diseases like malaria. In Spanish, mosquito means "little gnat," from mosca, "gnat or fly." WORD FAMILYmosquito: mosquitoes, mosquitos USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials also are considering locations for a separate test of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes genetically modified to produce offspring that die outside a lab. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) By the fifteen-thirties, the slavers were ravaging the Mosquito Coast and the Olancho Valley of central Honduras, destroying villages and rounding up people like cattle. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Better diagnostics are also needed, he said, along with more effective pesticides and other mosquito control methods. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) n two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals Hypo|Hyper gnat (British usage) mosquito Aedes aegypti, yellow-fever mosquitomosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue Aedes albopictus, Asian tiger mosquitostriped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases anophelineany mosquito of the genus Anopheles malaria mosquito, malarial mosquitotransmits the malaria parasite Culex pipiens, common mosquitocommon house mosquito Culex fatigans, Culex quinquefasciatuswidespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects 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 |
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