Definition of Psorophora
:a genus of large showy mosquitoes having the palpi of dissimilar length in the two sexes and the scutellum 3-lobed
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Psorophora
noun
Pso·roph·o·ra
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səˈräfərə
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Origin and Etymology of psorophora
New Latin, from psor- + -phora
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