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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cal·en·ture /ˈkælənˌʧʊr/
 熱帶地方的熱病,中暑

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.