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- noun Plural form of
musquito .
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Examples
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[Footnote 132: Sand-flies are called by the natives _musquitoes_, and what we call musquitoes they call _sancudos_.]
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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I very much dread the approach of warm weather on account of the chinches which are innumerable; I do really think that there are five times as many as there was last year, & then we were hardly able to rest for them so that we shall not want much bleeding; but we have no musquitoes which is one comfort, for if we had both our condition would be truly deplorable.
Letter from John Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, March 22, 1797 1797
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For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood.
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Numbers of fireflies were hovering about, and the musquitoes were very troublesome.
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We here have the puzzle that so frequently occurs in the case of musquitoes — on the blood of what animals do these insects commonly feed?
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We here have the puzzle that so frequently occurs in the case of musquitoes — on the blood of what animals do these insects commonly feed?
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Numbers of fireflies were hovering about, and the musquitoes were very troublesome.
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Trömsdal, as affording a very fine pasturage for their herds, as well as being in the immediate vicinity of salt water, it being absolutely necessary for the herd to be driven to the sea-shore during the fervid summer season, to avoid the deadly pests of musquitoes and other insects, and to be within the cooling influence of the sea-breezes.
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_ -- Flies and musquitoes came in myriads; they were very troublesome; there were none till now; the hurricane must have swept them away.
The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall
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At night large fires were made round the camp to burn out and keep off the musquitoes.
The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall
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