Designed to repel, kill, or prevent mosquitoes from biting or reproducing.
From anti- (against) + mosquito (from Spanish mosquito, literally 'little fly,' from mosca meaning 'fly'). The word mosquito was borrowed into English in the 16th century from Spanish explorers.
Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal through disease transmission, so antimosquito technology has literally saved hundreds of millions of lives—from screens to nets to the recent invention of genetically modified mosquitoes that can't carry malaria!
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