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Mosquito vs Maggot - What's the difference?

mosquito | maggot |

As a proper noun mosquito

is the de havilland mosquito, a second world war military aircraft.

As a noun maggot is

a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.

mosquito

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
  • Hypernyms

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    Derived terms

    * Mosquito Coast * mosquito coil * mosquito bar * mosquito fleet * mosquito hawk * mosquito net, mosquito netting

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
  • English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    maggot

    English

    (wikipedia maggot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
  • A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
  • Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
  • (obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
  • Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
  • * 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
  • Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?

    Synonyms

    * (soft legless larva) grub

    Derived terms

    * act the maggot * maggoted * maggoting * maggotish * maggotorium * maggoty * maggotiness