noun \mə-ˈskē-(ˌ)tō\  : a small flying insect that bites the
skin of people and animals and sucks their blood  plural
mos·qui·toes also mos·qui·tos  Full Definition of MOSQUITO  : 
any of a family (Culicidae) of dipteran flies with females that
have a set of slender organs in the proboscis adapted to
puncture the skin of animals and to suck their blood and that
are in some cases vectors of serious diseases mos·qui·to·ey
\-ˈskē-tə-wē\ adjective  Illustration of MOSQUITO  Origin of
MOSQUITO  Spanish, diminutive of mosca fly, from Latin musca —
more at midge First Known Use: circa 1583  Other Insect Terms
drone, entomology, gadfly, pismire, proboscis, vespine   noun
\mə-ˈskēt-(ˌ)ō, -ə(-w)\   (Medical Dictionary) plural
mos·qui·toes also mos·qui·tos  Medical Definition of MOSQUITO  :
any of numerous dipteran flies of the family Culicidae that have
a rather narrow abdomen, usually a long slender rigid proboscis,
and narrow wings with a fringe of scales on the margin and
usually on each side of the wing veins, tha