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anopheles

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anopheles (Greek anofelís: "useless") is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818. About 460 species are recognised; while over 100 can transmit human malaria , only 30–40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus Plasmodium ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context entomology English) A member of the ''Anopheles'' genus of mosquitos, which can carry the parasite which causes malaria.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anopheles \A*noph"e*les\ ([.a]*n[o^]f"[-e]*l[=e]z), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anwfelh`s useless, hurtful.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of mosquitoes, Modern Latin, coined 1818 by German entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764-1845) from Greek anopheles "useless, hurtful, harmful," from an- , privative prefix, (see an- (1)) + ophelos "use, help, advantage" (see Ophelia ). So called ...

Usage examples of anopheles.

Grassi hurried out of Rome to Moletta and came back with a couple of little bottles in which buzzed ten fine female anopheles mosquitoes.

Moreover, this new and unexpected type of reproduction is surely no more weird than many of the great variety of methods already found in the biological world--the startling transformation of caterpillar into butterfly, or the arrangement between bees and flowers, or the unpleasant but marvelously complex system of the anopheles mosquito.

Even mefloquine, however, with all its toxic-ity, is losing the battle against the ingenious mutations of the malaria parasite, carried by the Anopheles mosquito, which in turn transmits the parasite to man.