family Culicidae

Thesaurus

Noun

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family Culicidae - mosquitoes Culicidaearthropod family - any of the arthropodsNematocera, suborder Nematocera - mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand fliesmosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animalswiggler, wriggler - larva of a mosquitoAedes, genus Aedes - yellow-fever mosquitosAnopheles, genus Anopheles - malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvaeCulex, genus Culex - type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface