anthrax

1. 1.

   a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people

   Synonymssplenic fever

   Broaderzoonosis
2. 2.

   a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia

   Broaderdisease

   Narrowercutaneous anthraxpulmonary anthrax

Other forms of anthrax

plural

anthraces

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anthrax

What does anthrax mean?

anthrax means "a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anthrax?

anthrax has 2 syllables: an-thrax. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænθɹæks/.

What is another word for anthrax?

Close synonyms include splenic fever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anthrax a common word?

anthrax is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.