Bugs
Mosquitoes and bugs are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mosquitoes" instead a noun "Bugs".
Mosquitoes
Bugs and mosquitoes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bugs" instead a noun "Mosquitoes".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Animal Stereotypes: Friendly bugs include ladybugs and dragonflies, while enemy bugs include mosquitoes, red ants, bees, roaches, spiders, flies, and slugs.
Source: Video Game / Bugdom -
You still shoot from the bottom of the screen at a field of mushrooms, but instead of battling just the original four arthropods, you now face a deadlier variety of enemy bugs: millipedes, spiders, bees, beetles, earwigs, inchworms, dragonflies, and mosquitoes.
Source: Video Game / Millipede - The Plague: In the backstory, this killed a lot of people on one of the generation ships, and it's why Annie is so worried about mosquitoes as a disease vector in "Getting the Bugs Out".
Source: Literature / Mirabile
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