mosquito 的定义
plural mos·qui·toes, mos·qui·tos.
- 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.
- Military. a twin-engined, two-seat British fighter and bomber of World War II, made largely of plywood and having a top speed of 380 miles per hour.
mosquito 近义词
等同于 vermin
等同于 insect
更多mosquito例句
- Anyone who doesn’t regularly fall prey to mosquitos will still find the Bug Bite Thing a worthwhile investment.
- In this issue we dive into another scientific advance that prompts big questions — genetically engineering mosquitoes to combat diseases.
- The species is especially hard to control among about 45 kinds of mosquitoes that whine around the Keys.
- Also, the latest version of these mosquitoes is shipped from the United Kingdom as cleaned male eggs.
- After a decade of fits and starts, officials in the Florida Keys have voted to allow the first test in the United States of free-flying, genetically modified mosquitoes as a way to fight the pests and the diseases they spread.
- I chose it for its metaphorical resonance, but the mosquito bite theory might be the worse.
- On another trip, a defiant caiman (a South American crocodile) devours his mosquito net.
- The goal is to raise $250,000 in 30 days to build Sporobot, the mosquito-dissecting robot.
- In the summer, though, Bettles sees more tourists who come to the fly-and-mosquito infested gateway into the Alaskan wilderness.
- Its path here is almost comic: evidence indicates that the mosquito was brought because of the international used tire trade.
- Judy, already tucked inside her mosquito-curtains, was nearly asleep.
- The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.
- The sexual cycle can take place only within the body of one genus of mosquito, anopheles.
- When a malarious person is bitten by a mosquito, the gametes are taken with the blood into its stomach.
- These migrate to the salivary glands, and are carried into the blood of the person whom the mosquito bites.