Definitions for Culex

Culex cu·lex

Spelling: [kyoo-leks]
IPA: /ˈkyu lɛks/

Culex is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Culex (celux).

Definitions for Culex

noun

  1. any of numerous mosquitoes constituting the widespread genus Culex, distinguished by the habit in the adult of holding the body parallel to the feeding or resting surface, as the common house mosquito, C. pipiens.

Origin of Culex

New Latin (Linnaeus); Latin: gnat, midge

Examples for Culex

He did not recognize it as a Stegomyia, and thought it was a culex.

If the body is almost parallel to the surface, it is a culex.

This is the culex, which makes a "special line" in yellow fever.

But filariasis is terribly common, and so is culex fatigans.

The second piece, entitled Ciris, is a little longer than the culex.

The Anopheles is more common in the country, while the culex is a city pest.

The pediculus and culex marinus the sea lowse and flie are also no strangeres.

It is usually only during the lulls in the wind that culex can fly.

The culex attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this.

That culex (fatigans) can carry the parasite, has been proved past all doubt.

Word Value for Culex
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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