Definitions for Anopheles

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Anopheles a·noph·e·les

Spelling: [uh-nof-uh-leez]

IPA: /əˈnɒf əˌliz/

Anopheles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in Anopheles (aeehlnops).

Definitions for Anopheles

noun

1. any mosquito of the genus Anopheles, certain species of which are vectors of the parasite causing malaria in humans, distinguished from other mosquitoes by the absence of breathing tubes in the larvae and by the head-downward stance of the adult while resting or feeding.

Origin of Anopheles

1895-1900; New Latin Greek anōphelḗs useless, hurtful, harmful, equivalent to an- an-¹ + -ōpheles- variant stem of óphelos profit; earlier (a)n- (with vowel

Examples for Anopheles

On the other hand, the Fiji Islands have anopheles but no malaria.

The anopheles is more common in the country, while the Culex is a city pest.

Fig. 250d shows lower and upper side of the anopheles's egg.

In contrast to the veteran anopheles, the Aedes mosquito did not arrive until the 1980s.

Usually it can be definitely shown that no anopheles occur there.

The other division of malaria-hunters pursued the trail of the anopheles to her lair.

If the body is stuck out nearly at right angles to the surface on which the insect is resting, it is an anopheles.

Other mosquitoes may be there in abundance, but if no anopheles, there is no malaria.

It should be remembered that the anopheles can fly only about a hundred or two hundred yards.

This is the anopheles, which "travels in" malaria and elephantiasis.