malaria

About 4.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
2. noun Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.

Similar words

falciparum vivax cholera dysentery antimalarial tertian disease marsh wetland illness

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Word family

malarial malarias malarious