Crossword clues for culex
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 in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and Culex pipiens, the common house mosquito, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above). The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia.
Note: This genus formerly (ca. 1900) included the gnat as well as the mosquito.
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) Any of various mosquitoes of the genus ''Culex'', some of which carry disease
Wikipedia
Culex is a genus of mosquitoes, several species of which serve as vectors of one or more important diseases of birds, humans and other animals. The diseases they vector include arbovirus infections, West Nile virus, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, and avian malaria. They occur worldwide except for the extreme northern parts of the temperate zone, and are the most common form of mosquito encountered in some major US cities such as Los Angeles.
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.