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.

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Origin of rinderpest

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

Also called cattle plague.

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Examples from the Web for rinderpest

Every mile now began to show the grisly, stinking signs of rinderpest.
The Matabele Campaign|R. S. S. Baden-Powell
Rinderpest carried off 77 pack-bullocks out of 500, and a whole corps was segregated for two months with foot and mouth disease.
The Unveiling of Lhasa|Edmund Candler
These obscure organisms were by some persons considered to be either a cause or product of the rinderpest.
Parasites|T. Spencer Cobbold
Pleuro-pneumonia is often an epizotic, as is also the rinderpest.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various

The buffalo has recovered from the slaughter by rinderpest only in time to meet the onset of oversea sportsmen.
Our Vanishing Wild Life|William T. Hornaday

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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