cal·en·ture /ˈkælənˌʧʊr/
熱帶地方的熱病,中暑
Cal·en·ture n. Med. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
Cal·en·ture, v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic]
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. --Wordsworth.
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