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Verb: calenture  kalunchu(r)
  1. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture
Noun: calenture  kalunchu(r)
  1. A name formerly given to various fevers occurring 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

Derived forms: calenturing, calentures, calentured

Encyclopedia: Calenture

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