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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anopheles /əˈnɒfɪliːz/

▶noun a mosquito of a genus which includes the species that transmits the malarial parasite to humans.

– derivatives
anopheline /əˈnɒfɪlʌɪn, -liːn/ adjective & noun.

– origin C19: mod. L. genus name, from Gk anōphelēs ‘unprofitable, useless’.

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