anopheles

plural anopheleses

1. alsoattributivebiologyA mosquito of the genus Anopheles, some insects of which transmit various parasites of the genus Plasmodium that are the cause of malaria.

   He must do his tour of guard even if anopheles are waiting to bite him, and follow his command into regions no matter how insalubrious.

   1806, Major Jefferson Randolph Kean, “The Seaman Prize Essay.”, in Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, volume 18, Malaria., page 26

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   Analogy with the malaria-carrying mosquito points to the various kinds of anopheles, and perhaps to some species of the ordinary mosquito or culex, as being possible bearers of the disease.

   1901 May 24, H[erbert] Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations (Continued)”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 6, Maritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 162, column 1

   [T]he whole business was a silly mistake due to a murderous-mouthed ignorance of the ease with which the same result could have been obtained by inoculation with anopheles vaccine and stegomyia emulsion.

   1915 July 10, G[eorge] Bernard Shaw, “Doctors’ Delusions. Sanitation versus Inoculation.”, in Doctors’ Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education, Standard edition, London: Constable and Company, published 1931 (1950 printing), →OCLC, pages 128–129

   They slept again, then woke, and drowsed their way slowly towards the late afternoon when the unexpected fever awoke in him—an onslaught so sudden that the symptoms for her seemed instantly recognisable as a rogue attack of malaria. […] "I brought it back from the desert—they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!"

   1983, Lawrence Durrell, “The Return Journey”, in Sebastian: Or Ruling Passions […] ([The Avignon Quintet; 4]), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 155