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Topic: INSECTS

Date: 1500-1600
Language: Spanish
Origin: mosca 'fly', from Latin musca

mosquito

 noun
     
mosquito
mos‧qui‧to plural mosquitoes or mosquitos [countable]
HBI a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria
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