mosquito

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  mosquito    Mosquito    Miskito  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mosquito/məˈskiːtəʊ/

▶noun (pl. mosquitoes) a slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae, some kinds of which transmit malaria and other diseases through the bite of the bloodsucking female. [Family Culicidae.]

– origin C16: from Sp. and Port., dimin. of mosca, from L. musca ‘fly’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Mosquito

▶noun (pl. Mosquitos) & adjective variant spelling of Miskito.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Miskito /mɪˈskiːtəʊ/ (also Mosquito)

▶noun (pl. same or Miskitos)

• 1 a member of an American Indian people of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.

• 2 the language of the Miskito.

– origin the name in Miskito.