cattle plague

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   an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes

   Synonymsrinderpest

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about cattle plague

What does cattle plague mean?

cattle plague means "an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes".

What is another word for cattle plague?

Close synonyms include rinderpest. 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 cattle plague a common word?

cattle plague 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.