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CULICIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mosquitoes

Synonyms:

Culicidae; family Culicidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Culicidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Culicidae"):

mosquito (two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals)

wiggler; wriggler (larva of a mosquito)

Aedes; genus Aedes (yellow-fever mosquitos)

Anopheles; genus Anopheles (malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae)

Culex; genus Culex (type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface)

Holonyms ("Culicidae" is a member of...):

Nematocera; suborder Nematocera (mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies)

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