Mosquito vs Maggot - What's the difference?
mosquito | maggot |
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.
To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
English nouns with irregular plurals
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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.
(obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
* 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
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
English
(wikipedia mosquito)Noun
(en-noun)Hypernyms
* *Derived terms
* Mosquito Coast * mosquito coil * mosquito bar * mosquito fleet * mosquito hawk * mosquito net, mosquito nettingVerb
(en verb)maggot
English
(wikipedia maggot)Noun
(en noun)- Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
- Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?