ANOPHELES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anopheles mean? 

• ANOPHELES (noun)
  The noun ANOPHELES has 1 sense:

1. malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae

  Familiarity information: ANOPHELES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOPHELES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anopheles; genus Anopheles

Hypernyms ("Anopheles" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Anopheles"):

anopheline (any mosquito of the genus Anopheles)

malaria mosquito; malarial mosquito (transmits the malaria parasite)

Holonyms ("Anopheles" is a member of...):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)

 Context examples 

But a new study, published in the journal PLoS Genetics, found that the primary mosquito that harbors the parasite in southern Africa, Anopheles funestus, is rapidly becoming resistant to the insecticide.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

Current mainstay methods for Anopheles control target mosquitoes resting or biting indoors and rely on synthetic chemical insecticides.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus that draw blood contaminated with Plasmodium parasites.

(Biosensor promises early malaria diagnosis, SciDev.Net)

The simium type of the disease is transmitted from monkeys to humans by bites of Anopheles Kertezia cruzii mosquitoes, which are only found in places of dense vegetation.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

Malaria is spread to people through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquito vectors.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Topical application of VU041 was toxic to both insecticide-susceptible and insecticide-resistant strains of female mosquitoes, including both Anopheles gambiae (malaria carrier) and Aedes aegypti (dengue, yellow fever, and Zika virus carrier).

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

Both Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes—which transmitdengue and malaria respectively—were much less attracted to the scented beads after being exposed to the chemical.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the genus PLASMODIUM (P. falciparum (MALARIA, FALCIPARUM); P. vivax (MALARIA, VIVAX); P. ovale, and P. malariae) and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles.

(Malaria, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Therefore, they explored the potential of using light to control mosquitoes’ feeding behaviour by exposing Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — a key vector of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa — to multiple pulses of bright light, especially in the night, when they are most likely to feed on human blood.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Wondji noted other species of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, like Anopheles gambiae, are starting to become resistant to pyrethriods, although that is occurring through a different biological mechanism.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)