| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| anopheles |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·noph·e·les |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -n f -l z |
| NOUN: | Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Greek an phels, useless : an-, without; see a–1 + ophelos, advantage, use (influenced by earlier *nphels, useless). | | OTHER FORMS: | a·nophe·line (-l n, -l n) —ADJECTIVE
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