yellow-fever mosquito

noun

: a small dark-colored mosquito (Aedes aegypti) that is the usual vector of yellow fever

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1901, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of yellow-fever mosquito was in 1901

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yellow-fever mosquito

noun

: a small dark-colored mosquito of the genus Aedes (A. aegypti) that is the usual vector of yellow fever

called also tiger mosquito

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