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1. (n.) calenture
a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.
Etymology: (1585–95; earlier calentura < Sp: fever)
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1. (noun) calenture
a name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it
2. (verb) calenture
to see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture
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