swamp fever

1. 1.

   an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever

   Synonymsleptospirosis

   Broaderzoonosis

   Narrowercanicola feverWeil's disease

Questions about swamp fever

What does swamp fever mean?

swamp fever means "an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever".

What is another word for swamp fever?

Close synonyms include leptospirosis. 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 swamp fever a common word?

swamp 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.