Crossword-Solution: CULEX 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Culex n. A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and
mosquito.

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aedes kin 1 answer
Common mosquito 2 answers
Mosquito genus 2 answers
Gnat 9 answers
Mosquito 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Douze savans improvisés, portans des besicles, et qui ne connaissent rien des insectes, si ce n’est les morsures du _culex_, se précipitent sur l’instrument, et voient—une grande bulle d’air, dont ils s’émerveillent avec effusion.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
Douze savans improvises, portans des besicles, et qui ne connaissent rien des insectes, si ce n'est les morsures du CULEX, se precipitent sur l'instrument, et voient--une grande bulle d'air, dont ils s'emerveillent avec effusion.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
From half-past-six in the morning till five in the afternoon, the air is filled with mosquitos; which have not, as some travellers have stated, the form of our gnats,* (* Culex pipiens.
Equinoctial Regions of America V2 Alexander von Humboldt 2004
This difference between mosquito (little fly, simulium) and zancudo (gnat, culex) exists in all the Spanish colonies.
Equinoctial Regions of America V2 Alexander von Humboldt 2004
The Culex lineatus, which belongs to the Cano Tamalamec, is only perceived in the valley of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, at a league north of the junction of the two rivers; it goes up, but scarcely ever descends the Rio Grande.
Equinoctial Regions of America V2 Alexander von Humboldt 2004
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–1980).