malaria mosquito

English Thesaurus

1. transmits the malaria parasite (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mosquito,
definition	:	two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	anopheles, genus anopheles,
definition	:	malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae (noun.animal)