单词 | aedes |
释义 | Aedesn. Entomology. A large and widespread genus of small mosquitoes (family Culicidae) including several vectors of human disease, notably Aedes aegypti, the principal carrier of yellow fever. Also (in form aedes): a mosquito of this genus (more fully aedes mosquito). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of genus Aedes or Stegomyia tiger-mosquito1835 Aedes1856 stegomyia1911 1856 F. Walker Insecta Britannica IV. 242 Palpi short in the male. 1. Aëdes. 1868 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 2 47 The insects commonly known under the name of mosquitoes..are represented in our latitudes by three principal genera. Anopheles... Culex... Aedes, with the palpi short in both sexes. 1916 Health News Dec. 369 This board..published the following very important conclusions..that yellow fever is conveyed from man to man by the bite of the female Aedes mosquito. 1936 C. C. Furnas Next Hundred Years viii. 105 By eliminating pools of standing water from the [Panama] Canal Zone Surgeon-General Gorgas eliminated the carrier of yellow fever, the Aedes mosquito. 1993 New Scientist 16 Oct. 25/2 Global warming might encourage aedes mosquitoes, the type that transmit yellow fever, to spread northwards. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 229 Anopheline mosquitoes (Anopheles spp.) rest with their heads down and the body inclined at 45 degrees, whereas culicine (Aedes and Culex) species rest with their bodies held horizontally. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1856 |
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