mosquitoless
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- 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.