mosquito

noun1

1. •
   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.

   • I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it. — 1886

verb1

1. •
   To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

noun2

1. •
   (historical) The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
2. •
   (old-fashioned) Dated form of Miskito.