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culdoscope |
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culebra |
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culex
| culex fatigans
| culex pipiens
| culex quinquefasciatus
| culiacan
| culicid
culex
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun culex has 1 sense
- culex(n = noun.animal) genus culex - type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface; Array is a kind of arthropod genus
is a member of culicidae, family culicidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
culex, n. [L., a gnat.].
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae , to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as Culex sollicitans , which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and Culex pipiens , the common house mosquito, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above). The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia .
"This genus formerly (ca. 1900) included the gnat as well as the mosquito."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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