Malarious

//məˈlɛəɹi.əs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With malaria; where people may catch malaria.

    "In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles."

  2. 2
    Causing or relating to malaria.

Example

More examples

"In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles."

Etymology

From malaria + -ous.

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