anopheline
noun, adjective
anopheline is a noun meaning “Any mosquito of the genus Anopheles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-P-H-E-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anopheline is anophelines.
What does anopheline mean?
noun
- 1
Any mosquito of the genus Anopheles
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the anopheles mosquitoes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anopheline
- anophelines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anopheline?
Anopheline appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anopheline in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the anopheles mosquitoes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anofelino |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.