Crossword-Solution: MOSQUITO 8 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Mosquito n. Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex
and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the
sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they
puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites,
when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and
swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are
aquatic.

We have 28 clues for the answer “MOSQUITO”

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Backyard biter 1 answer
mossie 1 answer
gallinipper 1 answer
West Nile virus carrier 1 answer
Virus-transmitting insect 1 answer
Twin-engined W.W. II plane 1 answer
Light British long-range bomber. 1 answer
Insect from Ecuador? 1 answer
Culex. 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN encephalitis carrier 1 answer
"The ___ Coast," Theroux novel 1 answer
YELLOW fever transmitter 2 answers
Estival pest 2 answers
Fly in the tropics 2 answers
ANOPHELES 2 answers
Kind of net 2 answers
Criminal patterns, in brief 2 answers
Patio pest 2 answers
World War II fighter plane 2 answers
Summertime pest 3 answers
Dragonfly prey 3 answers
Biting bug 3 answers
Little biter 4 answers
Summer pest 4 answers
Gnat 9 answers
Little sucker 10 answers
BITING insect 16 answers
biter 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOSQUITO (5)

All the air was white with moonlight, All the water black with shadow, And around him the Suggema, The mosquito, sang his war-song, And the fire-flies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him; And the bull-frog, the Dahinda, Thrust his head into the moonlight, Fixed his yellow eyes upon him, Sobbed and sank beneath the surface; And anon a thousand whistles, Answered over all the fen-lands, And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Far off on the reedy margin, Heralded the hero’s coming.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
When Etienne had fallen asleep Edna bore him into the back room, and Robert went and lifted the mosquito bar that she might lay the child comfortably in his bed.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
There was but one table, covered with oilcloth; rows of benches answered for chairs; a railroad map, a chromo with a gilt frame protected by mosquito netting, hung on the walls, together with a yellowed photograph of the proprietor in Masonic regalia.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
Referred in a sort of casual way--and yet significant way--to 'the fact that the life policy in its simplest form is unknown in Lake Providence--they take out a mosquito policy besides.' He told many remarkable things about those lawless insects.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
When Presley reached Annixter's ranch house, he found young Annixter himself stretched in his hammock behind the mosquito-bar on the front porch, reading “David Copperfield,” and gorging himself with dried prunes.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with MOSQUITO (3)

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama XIV
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
Kelley Armstrong Broken
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
Soren Kierkegaard
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).