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# mosquito

«mosquito» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small flying insect with long legs; the females bite…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mosquito, mosquitoes or mosquitos)

### meaning for a pupil

A mosquito is a small flying insect with long legs; the females bite people and animals and suck their blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, mosquitoes lay their eggs in still water; their larvae live in water; only females bite, because they need blood to make eggs; males drink plant juice. In health and safety, mosquito bites itch, and in some hot countries mosquitoes spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and Zika; people use repellent, nets and long sleeves, and empty standing water. Phrases: «mosquito bite», «mosquito net», «mosquito repellent», «bitten by a mosquito».

### examples

- A mosquito bit me on the arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x1)
- Mosquito bites are very itchy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x2)
- Put on insect repellent to keep mosquitoes away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x3)
- We slept under a mosquito net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x4)
- Mosquitoes lay their eggs in still water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x5)
- Empty the old paddling pool so mosquitoes can't breed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x6)
- Only female mosquitoes bite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x7)
- In some countries mosquitoes carry malaria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x8)
- A queer sound could be heard, soft as a little bell, and faint and muffled like the buzz of a far-away mosquito. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/#x9)

### note

Plural «mosquitoes» (more common) or «mosquitos». Stress on the second syllable: «mo-SKEE-toe». An insect, so it has six legs. Myth: mosquitoes do not choose people with «sweet blood»; they follow the carbon dioxide we breathe out and body smell.

### In the corpora

- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [In Jurassic Park, scientists find dinosaur blood in a mosquito trapped in amber and bring T. rex back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/1/)
- [A mosquito had dinner while you slept, and the itch is your body reacting to its spit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/1/)
- [A mosquito's mouth is not one needle but six thin parts working together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/8/)
- [Mosquitoes come out in the evening; covering your arms and legs and using repellent keeps them off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mosquito» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mosquito/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.