mosquitoes
- 1Plural of mosquito.
Standing water in the yard attracts mosquitoes during the summer.
Health workers sprayed the marshes to control the mosquitoes spreading the disease.
Note
An -o noun that takes -es in the plural, like potatoes and tomatoes. Mosquitos also appears, but the -oes spelling dominates edited prose. With a capital, Mosquitoes names the De Havilland aircraft of the Second World War. It once named the Miskito people too, a dated usage best avoided today in favor of Miskito.
mosquitoes is a form of mosquito
mosquito, noun: A small flying insect of the family Culicidae whose females bite humans and animals to suck blood, leaving an itching bump and sometimes spreading diseases such as malaria, dengue, and yellow fever. Full entry
- Spelling
- mosquito → mosquitoes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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