milk sickness

1. 1.

   disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

   Synonymstrembles

   Broaderanimal disease
2. 2.

   caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles

   Broaderdisease

Questions about milk sickness

What does milk sickness mean?

milk sickness means "disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for milk sickness?

Close synonyms include trembles. 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 milk sickness a common word?

milk sickness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.