jungle fever

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   severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions

   Broadermalaria

Questions about jungle fever

What does jungle fever mean?

jungle fever means "severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions".

Is jungle fever a common word?

jungle fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.