Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any striped or banded mosquito of the genus
Stegomyia (which see).
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Examples
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I have observed him very busy, flapping right and flapping left, evidently much annoyed by the persecution of the mosquitoes; by-the-by, no one can have an idea how hard the tiger-mosquito can bite.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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