calenture

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calenture (plural calentures)

A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  
  Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate.
A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy greens and wishes to dive overboard into them.

heat stroke or fever