muskito

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A form of mosquito — A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.

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Meanings

nounmuskito (plural muskitos or muskitoes)

plural muskitos · plural muskitoes

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of mosquito.

    In 66. deg. 33. min. they found it very hotte, and were much troubled with a ſtinging Flie, called Muskito.

    1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Relations of the Discoveries, Regions, and Religions, of the New World.] Of the North parts of the New World (Groenland, Estotiland, Meta Incognita, and other Places) vnto New Fraunce.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book VIII (Of New France, Virginia, Florida; New Spaine, with Other Regions of America Mexicana, and of Their Religions), page 624

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

MitsukoTsumiko
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APA

muskito. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muskito

MLA

“muskito.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muskito. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muskito,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muskito.

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