Calenture Definition

kălən-cho͝or
noun
Any fever caused, as in the tropics, by exposure to great heat.
Webster's New World

A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

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Other Word Forms of Calenture

Noun

Singular:
calenture
Plural:
calentures

Origin of Calenture

  • Spanish calentura from calentar to heat from Latin calēns calent- present participle of calēre to be warm kelə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

    From Wiktionary

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Words Starting With

CCACAL

Words Ending With

EREURE

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