Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Aëdes, including A. aegypti, which transmits diseases such as yellow fever and dengue.

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  • noun yellow-fever mosquitos

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Aēdēs, genus name, from Greek aēdēs, unpleasant : a-, not; see a– + ēdos, pleasure; see swād- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • The largely urban disease is transmitted by a striped mosquito known as aedes aegypti.

    Scientists Tweak Bugs to Zap Disease Gautam Naik 2011

  • Because aedes aegypti is a weak flier, strong winds can push the mosquitoes far from their preferred habitat. 73 The arrival of the nortes coincided with the end of the rainy season, curtailing the breeding of any remaining mosquitoes until a new cycle could begin the following spring.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • It spreads through the bite of infected female aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

    Genetically modified mosquitoes lined up to tackle dengue fever Ian Sample 2010

  • In the headquarters building, the rooms along the rear of the cross-hall were refloored several times during the fourth century, and the room west of the shrine-room aedes was converted into a secondary shrine.

    Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009

  • In the headquarters building, the rooms along the rear of the cross-hall were refloored several times during the fourth century, and the room west of the shrine-room aedes was converted into a secondary shrine.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

  • I just finished sampling MPG's Jardin du Nil, from a 2.5ml sample I think came with an order from aedes late 2006.

    In Which I Am Being a Positive Thinker... Plus a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2008

  • I thought it might be luckyscetn ao aedes, or both but since Vero didn't specify I didn't.

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  • Nihil hine magis animos conciliat quam musica, pulchrae, aedes, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Daphne, — laudat digitosque manusque; a straight and slender body, a small foot, and well-proportioned leg, hath an excellent lustre, [4924] Cui totum incumbit corpus uti fundamento aedes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Potentiorum aedes ostratim adiens, aliquid accipiebat, canens carmina sua, concomitante eum puerorum choro.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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