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Culicidae

Definition: Culicidae

Culicidae

Noun

1. Mosquitoes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "Culicidae" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Specialty Definition: Culicidae

Domain	Definition
Health	A family of the order Diptera that comprises the mosquitoes. The larval stages are aquatic, and the adults can be recognized by the characteristic wing venation, the scales along the wing veins, and the long proboscis. Many species are of particular medical importance. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Culicidae

Synonym: family Culicidae (n). (additional references)

Commercial Usage: Culicidae

Domain	Title
Books	Mosquitoes of New York : Part I. The Genus Aedes Meigen With Identification Keys to Genera of Culicidae (New York State Museum Bulletin # 430A) (reference) Revisäao do gâenero Uranotaenia (Diptera, Culicidae) na regiäao afrotropical (reference) Taxonomâia y biologâia de los mosquitos del area salmantina (Diptera, Culicidae) (reference) The Culicidae of the Australasian region (reference) The mosquitoes of Canada : Diptera, Culicidae (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: Culicidae

Expression using "Culicidae": family Culicidae. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Culicidae

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
culicidae	4
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Anagrams: Culicidae

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-i-l-u"
	-2 letters: accidie, caducei, culicid, icicled.
	-3 letters: acidic, aculei, audile, caudle, cedula, celiac, cicale, cilice, icicle.
	-4 letters: adieu, ailed, alcid, aulic, cauld, cecal, cilia, clade, clued, decal, ducal, dulia, ideal, ileac, iliac, iliad, laced, lucid, ludic.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, aide, alec, auld, cade, cadi, caid, caul, ceca, cedi, ceil, clad, clue, cued, dace, dale, deal, deil.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-i-l-u"
	+2 letters: uncalcified.
	+3 letters: circularised, circularized.
	+4 letters: clairaudience, undialectical.
	+5 letters: clairaudiences, radiolucencies, unacclimatized.
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Alternative Orthography: Culicidae

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 75 6C 69 63 69 64 61 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01110101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0075 006C 0069 0063 0069 0064 0061 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378778756975706771

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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