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cal·en·ture  audio  (kln-chr) KEY 

NOUN:
A tropical fever once believed to be caused by the heat.

ETYMOLOGY:
Spanish calentura, from calentar, to heat, from Latin calns, calent- present participle of calre, to be warm; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots


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