| 释义 |
mosquito/mɒˈski:təʊ/n. (pl. -oes) any slender biting dipterous fly of the family Culicidae, esp. of the genus Culex, Anopheles, or Aedes, the female of which punctures the skin of humans and other animals with a long proboscis to suck their blood, transmitting diseases such as filariasis and malaria 蚊子(尤指库蚊属、按蚊属、伊蚊属的蚊子) [Spanish and Portuguese, diminutive of mosca, from Latin musca ‘fly’] |