calenture

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  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.

词形变化

calentures plural

词汇关系

衍生词
calentured

词源

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.
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