AEDES


Meaning of AEDES in English

āˈē(ˌ)dēz noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek aēdēs distasteful, nauseous

: a large cosmopolitan genus of mosquitoes distinguished from Anopheles by the trilobate scutellum and short palpi of the female and from Culex by the pointed abdomen of the female and including a number of species (as the yellow-fever mosquito) important as vectors of diseases of man and animals

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