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Antimalarial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Preventing or relieving the symptoms of malaria.

n. A drug used to treat malaria.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. agent that prevents or counteracts malaria

adj. preventing or counteracting malaria

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Good against malaria.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Preventive or curative of malaria.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria

Word Usage

"These discoveries led to the successful production of certain antimalarial drugs (they are reported in numerous scientific papers, mainly in the Journal of the Chemical Society)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

antiprotozoal antiprotozoal drug

Hyponym

primaquine mefloquine Atabrine mefloquine hydrochloride quinacrine larium quinine mephaquine chloroquine mepacrine

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

detoxicant antibacterial anthelmintic antiepileptic anti-psychotic chemotherapeutic antithrombotic antifungal hypotensive antitussive