thresher's lung

Questions about thresher's lung

What is another word for thresher's lung?

It depends which thresher's lung you mean. In the sense “alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay”, the synonyms are farmer's lung. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 thresher's lung?

WordNet records no antonym for thresher's lung. 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 thresher's lung 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 thresher's lungAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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