anopheline

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a mosquito of the genus Anopheles or a closely related genus, including species that transmit malaria

   The survey identified several anopheline mosquitoes near the marsh.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles or closely related genera

   The researchers mapped anopheline breeding sites throughout the region.

Formed in the early twentieth century from New Latin Anopheles, the mosquito genus name, + English -ine. Anopheles comes from Greek anopheles ("useless, harmful"), from an- ("not") + ophelos ("advantage").

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