malarious
Americanadjective
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People in malarious countries should fear malaria the way they fear HIV and cancer, but according to medical anthropologists, they don't.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2010
In a specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unfortunately, a malarious man it is believed remains infectious to anopheles for no less than three years, instead of the three days' limit of yellow fever, and this greatly increases the difficulty of exterminating malaria.
From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan
The autumn sun was blazing down upon the ancient city of Ravenna, and, over the flat pestilential country around it, an unwholesome malarious vapour hung thick and heavy.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Eucalyptus, ū-kal-ip′tus, n. the 'gum-tree,' a large Australian evergreen, beneficial in destroying the miasma of malarious districts.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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