yellow-fever mosquito

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   mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue

   SynonymsAedes aegypti

   Broadermosquito

   Part ofAedes

Questions about yellow-fever mosquito

What does yellow-fever mosquito mean?

yellow-fever mosquito means "mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue".

What is another word for yellow-fever mosquito?

Close synonyms include Aedes aegypti. 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 yellow-fever mosquito a common word?

yellow-fever mosquito 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.