Usually means: Mosquito genus transmitting malaria parasites.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. anopheles: Merriam-Webster
  2. Anopheles, anopheles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anopheles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anopheles: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Anopheles: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anopheles, anopheles: Wordnik
  7. anopheles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anopheles: Wiktionary
  9. anopheles: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anopheles: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anopheles: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anopheles: Dictionary.com
  13. anopheles: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anopheles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anopheles: Rhymezone
  16. anopheles: FreeDictionary.org
  17. anopheles: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. anopheles: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. anopheles: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anopheles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. anopheles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Anopheles: Medical dictionary

(Note: See anopheline as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anopheles)

noun:  (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.

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