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.

Origin of rinderpest

1860–65; < German, equivalent to Rinder cattle (plural of Rind) + Pest pestilence

Also called cattle plague.

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Historical Examples of rinderpest

Every mile now began to show the grisly, stinking signs of rinderpest.
The Matabele Campaign
R. S. S. Baden-Powell
Rinderpest has about done for us all, and bar that the whole show has been as dry as chips.
John Ames, Native Commissioner
Bertram Mitford
Pleuro-pneumonia is often an epizotic, as is also the rinderpest.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia
Various
He does not care about anything else until the rinderpest comes.
The Boer in Peace and War
Arthur M. Mann
But, unlike the English problem, rinderpest is not always with the Boer.
The Boer in Peace and War
Arthur M. Mann

British Dictionary definitions for rinderpest

rinderpest

noun

an acute contagious viral disease of cattle, characterized by severe inflammation of the intestinal tract and diarrhoea

Word Origin for rinderpest

C19: German: cattle pest

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