Meaning of night-biter | Babel Free

Definitions

An animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.

Examples

“The anopheles associated by experience with malaria are, in the main, house-haunters and night-biters, and at night their victim mainly spends his time in a house, circumstances which make it likely that the house is important in the transmission of malaria.”

“She [the mosquito] may be a night-biter or a day-biter. She may give an alarm: a hum made by the beating of her wings. Or she may be absolutely silent.”

“He argued that since these embryos are so much more numerous in the blood at night than in the daytime, the insect must probably be a night-biter, and with this in mind he began to examine the commonest night-biting insect he knew, the mosquito Culex fatigans.”

“[S]ome species of fish are night biters and some are not. Black sea bass are good night biters.”

“There are 3 main kinds of disease-transmitting mosquitoes: Anopheles, Culex, and Aedes. […] Anopheles are night biters and breed in clean water; Anopheles mosquitoes carry malaria and some filariasis.”

“In the Philippines, the principal malaria vector is Anopheles minimus var. flavirostris, a night-biter which breeds in slow-flowing, partly shaded streams that abound in the foothill areas.”

“In Honiara all the ward lights in the hospital were turned on at sunset and stayed on all night—an attempt to keep the night biter at bay: a practice that was only partially effective.”

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