noun
yellow-fever mosquitos
• Syn: ↑genus Aedes
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Culicidae, ↑family Culicidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑yellow-fever mosquito, ↑Aedes aegypti, ↑Asian tiger mosquito, ↑Aedes albopictus
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\\āˈē(ˌ)dēz\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a large cosmopolitan genus of mosquitoes distinguished from Anopheles by the trilobate scutellum and short palpi of the female and from Culex by the pointed abdomen of the female and including a number of species (as the yellow-fever mosquito) important as vectors of diseases of man and animals
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/ay ee"deez/, n.
1. See yellow-fever mosquito.
2. any mosquito of the genus Aedes. Also, aëdes.
[ < NL (1818) < Gk aedés distasteful, unpleasant, equiv. to a- A-6 + -edes, comb. form of hedýs sweet, akin to hedoné pleasure. See SWEET]
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aedes /ā-ēˈdēz/
noun
A member of the Aedes genus of mosquitoes, which includes Aedes aegypti, the species that carries yellow fever and dengue fever
ORIGIN: Gr aedes distasteful
Useful english dictionary. 2012.