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Type genus of the Culicidae widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface
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culex
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Culex may refer to: Culex , a genus of mosquito ( family Culicidae ). Culex, a Final Fantasy -style superboss in the Super Famicom video game Super Mario RPG . Culex (Poem) , a poem in the Appendix Vergiliana
Wiktionary
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n. (context biology English) Any of various mosquitoes of the genus ''Culex'', some of which carry disease
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Culex \Cu"lex\, n. [L., a gnat.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
Usage examples of culex.
Howard calls Stegomyia fasciata, or Culex fasciatus: and that its habits are the same as those of the Stegomyia.
Anyhow the malevolence of the Culex fasciatus would justify the suspicion that some wicked human soul had been compressed into that wailing speck of a body.
So the extermination of the Culex fasciatus would involve the destruction of the poetry of the ancestral cult,-- surely too great a price to pay!
The culex group are more common in southern areas and rest parallel to the surface.
Producers of the fruit abroad bearing the said fact in view tie some of the wild fruit when tenanted by the Culex fly to the young cultivated figs.