Origin: < Neo-Latin (1818) < Greekaēdḗs distasteful, unpleasant, equivalent to a-a-6 + -ēdēs, combining form of hēdýs sweet, akin to hēdonḗ pleasure. See sweet
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Aedes A·e·des (ā-ē'dēz') n. A genus of mosquitoes frequently found in tropical and subtropical regions that includes Aedes aegypti,which transmits diseases such as yellow fever and dengue.