mosquito
noun
any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
mosquitoey
-
a word derived from
mosquito.
Example Sentences
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It is occasionally chilly, foggy in winter, and sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes we paddled a mile or more before finding one to our minds, for where the shore was suitable the bank would often be too steep, or else too low and grassy, and therefore mosquitoey.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
