cuban itch

Questions about cuban itch

What does cuban itch mean?

cuban itch means "a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus".

What is another word for cuban itch?

Close synonyms include alastrim, variola minor, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, milk pox. 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 cuban itch a common word?

cuban itch 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.