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calentures

calentures is the plural of calenture.

Meaning of calenture

Noun

calenture (plural calentures)

  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
    • To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us.1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I
  2. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

Questions about calentures

What is calentures the plural of?
Calentures is the plural of calenture.

Words near calentures in the dictionary

  1. calendulin
  2. calenduloside
  3. calendulosides
  4. calenture
  5. calentured
  6. calentures
  7. caleosin
  8. caleosins
  9. calequestrin
  10. Caler
  11. Calera

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