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(Of thelat.)culex, - icis(mosquito).
1. adj. Zool. He says of the Diptera insects of the suborder of the Nematóceros, equipped with a proboscis that contains four or more strong bristles, which used the females to pierce the skin of humans and animals and suck blood that feed. Males live on plant juices. Females develop in water, on whose surface lay their eggs.
2. m. pl. Zool. Family of these animals.
ORTOGR. ESCR. with may. initial.
