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rinderpest
[ rin-der-pest ]
noun
, Veterinary Pathology.
- an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.
rinderpest
/ ˈrɪndəˌpɛst /
noun
- an acute contagious viral disease of cattle, characterized by severe inflammation of the intestinal tract and diarrhoea
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rinderpest1
1860–65; < German, equivalent to Rinder cattle (plural of Rind ) + Pest pestilence
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rinderpest1
C19: German: cattle pest
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Example Sentences
Rinderpest, or some other incomprehensible disease, affected and decimated the imported herds.
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Rinderpest, rin′dėr-pest, n. a malignant and contagious disease of cattle.
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Here were collected some two hundred waggons, stopped by loss of all their oxen from rinderpest.
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Just about the same time the terrible scourge of rinderpest came down upon the land.
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Owing to rinderpest, it seems almost impossible to get sufficient waggons in Cape Colony to bring up the required supplies.
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