anopheles
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀνωφελής (anōphelḗs, “useless”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anopheles (plural anopheles)
- (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.
- 1901 May 24, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness investigation”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 6, page 162:
- Analogy with the malaria-carrying mosquito points to the various kinds of anopheles, and perhaps to some species of the ordinary mosquito or culex, as being possible bearers of the disease.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:
- ‘I brought it back from the desert – they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!’
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[edit]Translations
[edit]member of the Anopheles genus of mosquitos
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