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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024a•noph•e•les /əˈnɑfəˌliz/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -les. - Insectsa mosquito some species of which transmit malaria to humans.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024a•noph•e•les (ə nof′ə lēz′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -les. - Insectsany 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. Cf. culex.
- Greek anōphelé̄s useless, hurtful, harmful, equivalent. to an- an-1 + -ōpheles- variant stem of óphelos profit; earlier (a)n- (with vowel lengthening) + opheles-, written in Mycenaean Greek as nopere
- Neo-Latin
- 1895–1900;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: anopheles /əˈnɒfɪˌliːz/ n ( pl -les)- any of various mosquitoes constituting the genus Anopheles, some species of which transmit the malaria parasite to man
Etymology: 19th Century: via New Latin from Greek anōphelēs useless, from an- + ōphelein to help, from ophelos help |