swine influenza

1. 1.

   an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic

   Synonymsswine flu

   Broaderinfluenza

Questions about swine influenza

What does swine influenza mean?

swine influenza means "an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic".

What is another word for swine influenza?

Close synonyms include swine flu. 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 swine influenza a common word?

swine influenza 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.