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GENUS AEDES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yellow-fever mosquitos
Synonyms:
Aedes; genus Aedes
Classified under:
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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