malaria

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days. countable,uncountable
  2. Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The doctor had his hands full, as the air was so impregnated with malaria that men who had only landed some twenty-four hours were laid low with this extraordinarily violent type of fever.

词形变化

malarias plural

词汇关系

衍生词
airport malaria antimalaria antimalarial falciparum malaria knowlesi malaria malarial malariametric malaria mosquito malaria net malarigenous malarin malarioid malariologist malariology malarious nonmalaria vivax malaria

词源

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Introduced into English by the Scottish geologist John MacCulloch (1773–1835). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).
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