Night-biter

//naɪt ˈbaɪtə// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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