culex pipiens

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   common house mosquito

   Synonymscommon mosquito

   Broadermosquito

   Part ofCulex

Questions about culex pipiens

What does culex pipiens mean?

culex pipiens means "common house mosquito".

What is another word for culex pipiens?

Close synonyms include common mosquito. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is culex pipiens a common word?

culex pipiens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.