The Collaborative International Dictionary
mal de mer \mal de mer\ n. Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water; seasickness.
Syn: seasickness, naupathia.
WordNet
n. motion sickness experienced while traveling on water [syn: seasickness, naupathia]
Usage examples of "mal de mer".
The only way they could be induced to eat the mess, especially at sea where they were as susceptible to mal de mer as humans, was by liberally lacing it with ketchup powder.
She had nursed the elderly duchess through debilitating bouts of mal de mer when the lady's own servants had been too ill to tend her, and the ordeal had forged an enduring bond of friendship between them.
She felt intolerably ill and listless, as if in the grip of mal de mer.
This mal de mer troubled him the more that it prevented him from questioning Captain Bjarne as to the subject of Sneffels, as to the means of communication, and the facilities of transport.