anopheles
/əˈnɒfɪliːz
/(also anopheles mosquito)
noun
A mosquito of a genus which is particularly common in warmer countries and includes the mosquitoes that transmit the malarial parasite to humans. Compare with culex.
- Genus Anopheles, subfamily Anophelinae, family Culicidae.
- Millions of people die each year from malaria, which is transmitted through the bite of the anopheles mosquito.
- Among a dozen mosquito types in Milan, experts are keeping a close eye out for the anopheles mosquito which is capable of transmitting malaria.
Derivatives
anopheline
- Both culicine and anopheline mosquitoes can now be transformed, and genetic constructs that block the development of malaria parasites in transformed mosquitoes have been produced.
- Intriguingly, the bias observed here was restricted to culicines, suggesting that loss from these taxa occurs at a higher rate than from anophelines, despite the fact that culicine genomes are up to eight times larger.
- During a single feeding bout, lasting 4 to 5 min, a female anopheline mosquito can increase mass by more than 200%.
Origin
Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek anōphelēs 'unprofitable, useless'.
- hermaphroditic
- hermaphroditical
- hermaphroditism
- Hermaphroditus
- hermeneut
- hermeneute
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutical
- hermeneutically
- hermeneutics
- hermeneutist
- Hermes
- Hermes Trismegistus
- hermetic
- hermetically
- hermeticism
- hermit
- hermitage
- hermit crab
- Hermitian
- hermitic
- hermitism
- hermit-like
- hermit sheep
- hermit thrush