farmer's lung

1. 1.

   alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay

   Synonymsthresher's lung

   Broaderalveolitis

Questions about farmer's lung

What does farmer's lung mean?

farmer's lung means "alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay".

What is another word for farmer's lung?

Close synonyms include thresher's lung. 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 farmer's lung a common word?

farmer's lung 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.