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Malta|ˈmɒltə, -ɔː-|
The name of an island in the Mediterranean, formerly a dependency of Great Britain and now an independent republic. Used attrib., as † Malta cross = Maltese cross; Malta fever, a complicated fever of long duration, common in Malta and other places in the Mediterranean; Malta fungus (see quot. 1870; cf. Maltese mushroom).
1651Malta cross [see cross n. 19]. 1725J. Coats Dict. Her., Malta-cross, so call'd because worn by the Knights of that Order. 1866Wood in Edin. Med. Jrnl. I. 60 Malta Fever. 1870H. Seddall Malta 340 Cynomorium coccineum (L.) ærk el generàl (Malt.), the curious so-called Malta fungus, which grows abundantly on the General's Rock, off Gozo. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 463 note, Some nosologists object to the term Malta Fever. |