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GENUS AEDES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Yellow-fever mosquitos

Synonyms:

Aedes; genus Aedes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Aedes" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Aedes"):

Aedes aegypti; yellow-fever mosquito (mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue)

Aedes albopictus; Asian tiger mosquito (striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases)

Holonyms ("genus Aedes" is a member of...):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)

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