malaria
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
malaria/məˈleəriə/
▶noun a mosquito-borne intermittent and remittent fever endemic to warmer regions and caused by a protozoan parasite (genus Plasmodium).
– derivatives
malarial adjective,
malarian adjective,
malarious adjective.
malarial adjective,
malarian adjective,
malarious adjective.
– origin C18: from Ital., from mal'aria, contracted form of mala aria ‘bad air’ (orig. denoting the unwholesome exhalations of marshes, to which the disease was formerly attributed).
'malaria' also found in these Oxford entries:
ague
- antimalarial
- blackwater fever
- chloroquine
- culex
- falciparum
- fever tree
- jungle fever
- Lariam
- malariology
- marsh fever
- mosquito
- plasmodium
- proguanil
- quartan
- quotidian
- sporozoan
- tertian
