yellow-fever mosquito

Questions about yellow-fever mosquito

What is another word for yellow-fever mosquito?

It depends which yellow-fever mosquito you mean. In the sense “mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue”, the synonyms are Aedes aegypti. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of yellow-fever mosquito?

WordNet records no antonym for yellow-fever mosquito. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for yellow-fever mosquito come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of yellow-fever mosquito

• Full entry for yellow-fever mosquitoAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for yellow-fever mosquitoWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.