Synonyms for mosquito
məˈski toʊmos·qui·to

Princeton's WordNet

1. mosquitonoun

   two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

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1. • Dipterous Insect

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1. List of paraphrases for "mosquito":

   mosquitoes, anti-mosquito, larvicidal, gnat, malarial, mustique, vector, mosquito-borne

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1. Cam Simmons:

   It's about resources, this is a nonprofit effort and there's only so much we can do right now. Obviously with the Zika emergency, there's more attention on mosquito-borne diseases, and hopefully that will change.

2. Phil Lounibos:

   What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.

3. Dilma Rousseff:

   Brazil and the world have lost the battle against dengue, but we won the war against yellow fever, which is carried by the same mosquito. We will win the war against Zika.

4. Uriel Kitron:

   And of course in today's world, you and I, along with any mosquito or virus, can hop a plane and get anywhere within less than 24 hours, i always say the mosquito is not a great flier, but it's a wonderful hitchhiker. So it's very easy to reintroduce.

5. Regulator Affairs Dr. Nathan Rose:

   So, mosquito-borne disease is a thing in the U.S., and it's likely to get worse in the future as a result of climate change [and] as these mosquitoes kind of move farther and farther northfrom the Gulf Coast into more and more of the continental U.S., so, the diseases are a big problem because these particular diseases don't have any effective vaccines or medications to treat them [and] the only way to control them is actually to control the mosquitoes that spread them...