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Calenture — definition & meaning

Word	Type	Definition
Calenture	n.	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.

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