malarious

English

Etymology

From malaria +‎ -ous.

Adjective

malarious (comparative more malarious, superlative most malarious)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

2. (medicine) Causing or relating to malaria.