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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

blackwater

· black·wa·ter · IPA
01 n. any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells; -- used especially o…
  1. 1.
    any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells; -- used especially of blackwater fever, a severe form of malaria caused by the blood parasite Plasmodium falciparum.