noun
mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
• Syn: ↑Aedes aegypti
• Hypernyms: ↑mosquito
• Member Holonyms: ↑Aedes, ↑genus Aedes
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noun : a small dark-colored mosquito (Aëdes aegypti) of the warmer parts of the world that is the usual agent in the transmission of yellow fever — compare anopheles, culex
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/yel"oh fee"veuhr/
a mosquito, Aedes aegypti, that transmits yellow fever and dengue.
[1900-05, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.