Malarious
//məˈlɛəɹi.əs// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 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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