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culex

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for culex.

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The Aedes come into a room, find a wall, and eventually eat, while Culex go straight for the bite.

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Quick take

Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for culex.

noun

Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

Example sentences

1

The Aedes come into a room, find a wall, and eventually eat, while Culex go straight for the bite.

2

The fight with Culex re-uses the boss music from FF4, though.

3

Many genera of mosquitoes _can_ spread disease: anopheles, aedes, culex, culiseta.

4

A much more dangerous type than the culex we’re used to.

5

The systems, which were tested with the potentially dangerous Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens, were able to extract the wing-beat frequency, when they passed impinging light, derived from light-emitting diodes.

6

The GP may well have done so, but most extreme proposals are to eliminate parts of the genuses Aedes, Anopholes, and Culex - together about 2% of the genetic diversity of the family Culicidae.

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Of the ~100 genus (around 3500 species) of mosquitos, only a fraction bite humans and only 3 genus are responsible for most disease spread: Aedes mosquitoes (yellow fever, dengue, and encephalitis), Anopheles mosquitoes (malaria, filariasis, elephantiasis), and Culex mosquitoes (encephalitis, filariasis, West Nile virus).

Quote examples

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("Which Final Fantasy is Culex from?" being a favorite.) Other times we would just talk about life.

2

> Aedes, Anopheles and Culex are found almost all over the world and are responsible for around 17 per cent of infectious disease transmissions globally." If I understand that correctly, that is a massive number.

Proper noun examples

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Native mosquitos on the west coast (Culex) do not carry west nile or zika.

2

Culex uses the Final Fantasy 4 boss battle music, so some people mistakenly think he is from the game but it's just the music.

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Anopheles/Aedes/Culex mosquitos are the grey goo of insects, driving other flies, midges, and even mosquitos (which local fish and larval predators have evolved with) to exinction.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use culex in a sentence?

The Aedes come into a room, find a wall, and eventually eat, while Culex go straight for the bite.

What does culex mean?

Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.

What part of speech is culex?

culex is commonly used as noun.