culex

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Chief among the groupings here are culex, or freshwater, and saltwater marsh mosquitoes, with saltwater the most aggressive.

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  1. noun Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, which includes the common house mosquito (C. pipiens).

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  • It's not really self transformation, its driven largely by the environment, anyway, observed increases in complexity via evolution include but are certainly not limited to the nylon bug, cit+ E. Coli, culex mosquito, hedylepta. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes is also of fundamental practical importance in general and veterinary medicine. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • VI Footnote 77: "Parve culex, pecudum custos tibi tale merenti Funeris officium vitć pro munere reddit Footnote 78: 9. —  Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
  • It is thus, that, on a principal vein, the appearance of a new substance in the gangue indicates to the miner the neighbourhood of a secondary vein that joins the first On recapitulating the observations here recorded, we see, that within the tropics, the mosquitos and zancudos do not rise on the slope of the Cordilleras* toward the temperate region, where the mean heat is below 19 or 20 degrees (* The culex pipiens of Europe does not, like the culex of the torrid zone, shun mountainous places. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • Politian had used the freedom of a friend, and pleasantly, in the form of a Latin epigram, corrected the mistake of Scala in making the culex (an insect too well-known on the banks of the Arno) of the inferior or feminine gender. —  Romola
 

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