rabbit fever

What does rabbit fever mean?

rabbit fever means "a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals".

What is another word for rabbit fever?

Close synonyms include tularemia, tularaemia, deer fly fever, yatobyo. 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 rabbit fever a common word?

rabbit 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rabbit fever come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.