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Noun: yellow-fever mosquito
  1. Mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
    - Aedes aegypti

Derived forms: yellow-fever mosquitoes

Type of: mosquito, mossie [Brit, informal], mozzie [Brit, informal], skeeter [N. Amer, Austral, informal]

Part of: Aedes, genus Aedes

Encyclopedia: Yellow-fever mosquito