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plural mosquitos or mosquitoes
A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever. quotations examples
I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.
1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461
third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed
To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. examples