Night-biter
//naɪt ˈbaɪtə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 An animal, especially an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.
"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."
Example
More 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."
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