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English
Etymology
From malaria + -ous.
Adjective
malarious (comparative more malarious, superlative most malarious)
- (medicine, of a place or region) With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102:In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.
2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times:Dr. Abrams, the Columbia expert, said in an interview that the Uganda findings had additional implications for treating H.I.V.-infected children in malarious areas.
- (medicine) Causing or relating to malaria.