Crossword-Solution: MOSQUITO
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with MOSQUITO (3)
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
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…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).