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ANOPHELES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae

Synonyms:

Anopheles; genus Anopheles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Anopheles" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Anopheles"):

anopheline (any mosquito of the genus Anopheles)

malaria mosquito; malarial mosquito (transmits the malaria parasite)

Holonyms ("Anopheles" is a member of...):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Most cases of vivax malaria recorded in Brazil are transmitted to people through bites by mosquito vectors such as the Anopheles darlingi.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)