calenture
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
- noun A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
Similar words
sun fever heat stroke temperature sunfever sun-fever fever heat apoplexy hyperthermia tazomahery febrility
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Word family
calentures
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