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Do I just not understand the definition? quito Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Self-Defense 2009

Several hundred poor and middle-class Indians are awaiting screening for dengue fever, a mos-quito-borne disease that has reached near-epidemic proportions in Delhi this fall.

Medical Meccas: An Oasis for India's Poorest 2007

He flew swiftly'more swiftly than any genuine mos - quito could have-across the field of flowers, and came back to the land medium.

Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

Gary turned off his flashlight and for a while I heard him wres'tling with his cot and blankets as he tucked in the mos-quito netting.

Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

It was derived from the Portuguese _quito-sol_, or that which keeps off the sun.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The first move would be to call on Finlay and ask him about the mos - quito.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

A mos - quito, buzzing viciously in the doctor's ear, made him shake his head vigorously.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

Building Number Two, or the infected mos - quito building, was like Building Number One, except that its win - dows were placed so as to afford good ventilation, and it was par - titioned inside by a very fine wire screen through which mosquitoes could not pass.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

For twenty years, too, Dr. Carlos Finlay of Havana kept in - sisting that yellow fever was spread by the bite of a certain mos - quito, the female of Culex fasciatus, now called Aedes aegypti.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

Y aunque el doctor Valbas en Alcala a quien fue cometido por el Consejo Real, al principio le quito grandes pedazos adonde trataba a San Hieronimo como me trata a mi agora, no le pudo quitar esto que yo digo, por que era quitalle todo el libro, ... '

Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921