mosquitoless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mosquito +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

mosquitoless (not comparable)

  1. without mosquitos.
    • 1923, Mosquito Extermination Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, New Jersey, page 136:
      I am on record for ten years past, of saying that we can't boast of a mosquitoless New Jersey until after our annual expenditures are at least a half-million dollars. Our experience this year is good proof.
    • 2002, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 216:
      Is this not too high a price to pay for a sproutless potato or a mosquitoless patio?
    • 2011, Henry Seebohm, The Birds of Siberia: A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
      It was a mosquitoless day, and very cold; a heavy sea still broke against the shore; ever and anon the sun shone, but masses of cloud kept drifting over the sky.