What does mountain fever mean?

mountain fever means "caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks".

What is another word for mountain fever?

Close synonyms include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick fever. 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 mountain fever a common word?

mountain fever 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.

mountain fever — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
SynonymsRocky Mountain spotted fever tick fever
Broaderspotted fever

Questions about mountain fever

What does mountain fever mean?: mountain fever means "caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks".
What is another word for mountain fever?: Close synonyms include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick fever. 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 mountain fever a common word?

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