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Word: Anopheles
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek anōphelēs ‘unprofitable, useless’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈnɒfɪliːz
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a mosquito of a genus which is particularly common in warmer countries and includes the mosquitoes that transmit the malarial parasite to humans.
Short Definition:mosquito of genus which is particularly common in warmer countries and includes mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite
Variant Forms:
- anopheles mosquito
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