MOSQUITOS Antonyms

• (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

• social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

• any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

• a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• jutting or overhanging

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

• diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

• a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

• flutter like a butterfly

• cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.

• small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests

• predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

• a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

• a skillet made of cast iron