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Common mosquito   /kˈɑmən məskˈitoʊ/   Listen
Common mosquito

noun
1.
Common house mosquito.  Synonym: Culex pipiens.





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"Common mosquito" Quotes from Famous Books



... common mosquito gauze, or, if this cannot be had, any thin cloth may be substituted. It should be sewed fast to the iron wire, from hinge to hinge, and then, with the hoops resting in its groove, the netting should be drawn over the platform, and tacked to the bottom of the groove, ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson
... was done on the most common mosquito of the region, a species of Culex. But one day a friend sent him a different mosquito, one with spotted wings, and in examining it he was interested to note certain oval or round nodules on the outer walls of the stomach. ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane


Words linked to "Common mosquito" :   mosquito, Culex, genus Culex


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