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malarious

UK/məˈlɛəɹi.əs/US/məˈlɛɹi.əs/

malarious adjective: with malaria; where people may catch malaria.

Adjective

malarious (comparative more malarious, superlative most malarious)

  1. With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
    • In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102
    • Dr. Abrams, the Columbia expert, said in an interview that the Uganda findings had additional implications for treating H.I.V.-infected children in malarious areas.2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times
  2. Causing or relating to malaria.

Forms of malarious

comparativemore malarious
superlativemost malarious

Origin of malarious

From malaria + -ous.

Words formed from malarious

Words that rhyme with malarious

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Questions about malarious

What does malarious mean?
Malarious means with malaria; where people may catch malaria.
What part of speech is malarious?
Malarious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce malarious?
Malarious is pronounced /məˈlɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).

Words near malarious in the dictionary

  1. malariologist
  2. malariologists
  3. malariology
  4. malariometric
  5. malariotherapy
  6. malarious
  7. malarkey
  8. malarkeys
  9. malarkies
  10. malarky
  11. Malarkys

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