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antimalarial

noun

a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria

• Syn: ↑antimalarial drug

• Hypernyms: ↑antiprotozoal, ↑antiprotozoal drug

• Hyponyms:

↑chloroquine, ↑mefloquine, ↑mefloquine hydrochloride, ↑Larium, ↑Mephaquine, ↑primaquine, ↑quinacrine, ↑quinacrine hydrochloride, ↑mepacrine, ↑Atabrine, ↑quinine

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I. \\| ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|-\ adjective

Etymology: anti- (I) + malarial

: serving to prevent, check, or cure malaria

II. noun (-s)

: an antimalarial drug

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antimalāˈrial (↑malarial) adj(1)

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Main Entry: ↑anti-

Useful english dictionary. 2012.