mosquitoey

Main Entry: mos·qui·to
Pronunciation: m&-'skEt-(")O, -&(-w)
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -toes also -tos
: any of numerous dipteran flies of the family Culicidae that have a rather narrow abdomen, usually a long slender rigid proboscis, and narrow wings with a fringe of scales onthe margin and usually on each side of the wing veins, that have in the male broad feathery antennae and mouthparts not fitted for piercing and in the female slender antennae and a set of needlelikeorgans in the proboscis with which they puncture the skin of animals to suck the blood, that lay their eggs on the surface of stagnant water, that include many species which pass through severalgenerations in the course of a year and hibernate as adults or winter in the egg state, and that include some species which are the only vectors of certain diseases —see AEDES, ANOPHELES, CULEX

mosquito mos·qui·to (mə-skē'tō)
n. pl. mos·qui·toes or mos·qui·tos
Any of various two-winged insects of the family Culicidae, in which the female of most species has a long proboscis for sucking blood. Some species are vectors of diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.