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Definition of Mosquitoes
1. mosquito [n] - See also: mosquito
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosquitoes
Literary usage of Mosquitoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"This group includes the familiar insects known as mosquitoes—not a large group,
but a very important one, not only from the fact that mosquitoes abound in ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"While he demonstrated that mosquitoes can carry the disease, the variety remained
in doubt. Bancroft,2" in 190."), transmitted dengue in two apparently ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"No effort is made to control them, although one man told me that at some seasons
the mosquitoes were so bad in places that people took refuge in their beds ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"V.—Author's infecting cage for mosquitoes. netting it forms a cradle; the
extremities are prolonged in the form of sleeves. (Fig. V.). ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Evidence is submitted to show that mosquitoes do not fly far and also that ...
Upon the very important and interesting topic of ' mosquitoes and malaria,' I ..."
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