Vocabulary : Culdee to Culled
Culdee : One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.Cul-de-sac : A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. ;; a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. ;; Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.
Culerage : See Culrage.
Culex : A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito. ;; A genus of mosquitoes to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as C. sollicitans, which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and C. pipiens, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above.) The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia.
Culicid : Like or pertaining to the Mosquito family (Culicidae). ;; A culicid insect.
