milk pox

Questions about milk pox

What is another word for milk pox?

It depends which milk pox you mean. In the sense “a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus”, the synonyms are alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, white pox, West Indian smallpox, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of milk pox?

WordNet records no antonym for milk pox. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for milk pox come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for milk poxAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for milk poxWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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