yellow fever

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   caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito

   Synonymsyellow jackblack vomit

   Broaderinfectious disease

Questions about yellow fever

What does yellow fever mean?

yellow fever means "caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito".

What is another word for yellow fever?

Close synonyms include yellow jack, black vomit. 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 yellow fever a common word?

yellow 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.