Definition of Culicine

1. a mosquito [n -S] - See also: mosquito

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culicine

culdoscopies
culet
culets
culex
culexes
culices
culicid
culicidae
culicidal
culicide
culicids
culiciform
culicifuge
culicine (current term)
culicines
culicosis
culinarian
culinarians
culinarily
culinarily challenged
culinary
culinary art
cull
cull out
cull section
cull tree
cullay
cullays

Literary usage of Culicine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"The pupa of an unidentified species of this group, sent to us from Florida, is free swimming and active, and greatly resembles that of a culicine. ..."

2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"... and it is interesting to note its general resemblance to the culicine genus Anopheles, which we here place the lowest of the true ..."

3. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"Mosquito larvae in natural position in the water- (a) culicine; (6) Anopheline. ... The culicine larvae usually feed on organisms located at the bottom of ..."

4. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Both anopheline and culicine mosquitoes can serve as intermediate hosts of Filaria bancrofti ... culicine mosquitoes Culex pipiens Linnaeus Aedes argent eus ..."

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