Definition of Culicines

1. culicine [n] - See also: culicine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culicines

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

Literary usage of Culicines

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

1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"It is allied to the lowest of the culicines and perhaps developed from a form like ... In fact, our three last groups, the culicines, ..."

2. Practical Sanitation by Fletcher Gardner, James Persons Simonds (1914)
"There is one very obvious mark, however, which distinguishes the Anophelines from the culicines, the position when at rest. ..."

3. Mosquito Eradication by Walter Ernest Hardenburg (1922)
"Another differentiation is the fact that culicines have flat abdominal scales, ... As already intimated, the resting position of the culicines is also very ..."

4. The Practical study of malaria and other blood parasites by John William Watson Stephens (1904)
"Probably a very small amount only of secretion is used with each puncture. The Ducts.—-The intra-acinar ducts vary in culicines and Anophelines. ..."

5. Malarial prophylaxis in small isolated communities in Central Africa by R. Howard (1908)
"Here pools suitable for both anophelines and culicines to breed in are of frequent occurrence. They are often stretches of water several yards long, ..."

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