Translingual

Anopheles minimus

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• Anophles

Proper noun

Anopheles m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Culicidae – mosquitos that spreads malaria.

English

Anopheles earlei

Wikispecies

Noun

anopheles

1. (entomology) A member of the Anopheles genus of mosquitos, which can carry the parasite which causes malaria.
   • 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!’

Related terms

• Anopheles
• anopheline

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