foot-and-mouth disease

1. 1.

   acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs

   Synonymshoof-and-mouth disease

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about foot-and-mouth disease

What does foot-and-mouth disease mean?

foot-and-mouth disease means "acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs".

What is another word for foot-and-mouth disease?

Close synonyms include hoof-and-mouth disease. 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 foot-and-mouth disease a common word?

foot-and-mouth disease 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.