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FAMILY CULICIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mosquitoes
Synonyms:
Culicidae; family Culicidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Culicidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family Culicidae" is a member of...):
Nematocera; suborder Nematocera (mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies)
