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Culet vs Culex - What's the difference?

culet | culex |

As a noun culet

is a component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.

As a proper noun culex is

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culet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
  • * 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 49:
    • The Turk prosecuted his advantage to the uttermost of his power; yet the other [...] not onely avoided the Turkes violence, but having drawne his Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets thorow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, as the rest had done.
  • A small, flat face at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
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    culex

    English

    (wikipedia culex) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (culices)
  • (biology) Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex , some of which carry disease
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