canicola fever

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   an acute feverish disease in people and in dogs marked by gastroenteritis and mild jaundice

   Broaderswamp fever

Questions about canicola fever

What does canicola fever mean?

canicola fever means "an acute feverish disease in people and in dogs marked by gastroenteritis and mild jaundice".

Is canicola fever a common word?

canicola fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.