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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•lar•i•a /məˈlɛriə/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Pathologya disease characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by microorganisms that enter the bloodstream from the bite of a certain mosquito.
ma•lar•i•al, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•lar•i•a (mə lâr′ē ə),USA pronunciation n. - Pathologyany of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- [Archaic.]unwholesome or poisonous air.
- Italian, contraction of mala aria bad air
- 1730–40
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