Definitions for anthrax

anthrax an·thrax

Spelling: [an-thraks]
IPA: /ˈæn θræks/

Anthrax is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in anthrax (aahnrtx).

Definitions for anthrax

noun

  1. an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted to humans by contaminated wool, raw meat, or other animal products.
  2. a malignant carbuncle that is the diagnostic lesion of anthrax disease in humans.

Origin of anthrax

1350-1400; Middle English antrax malignant boil or growth Latin anthrax carbuncle Greek ánthrax a coal, carbuncle

Examples for anthrax

The opinion of Hahn, who considered it to have been their anthrax, is absurd.

This other, resting on the burning sand, is also a member of the Fly tribe; she is an anthrax.

Therefore he followed with rabies the method that he had followed with anthrax.

“anthrax could be released in a city, quietly, without anyone knowing,” the narrator says.

The son is reportedly part of a new generation of young drug lords who called themselves “the anthrax Group.”

But if the hens feet are kept in cold water, then the anthrax wins.

As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste.

At that time, the best-known microbe was the bacillus of anthrax.

News that 75 government scientists had been exposed to anthrax in Atlanta sent shivers up the spine of the science world Thursday.

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

Word Value for anthrax
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17

Words with friends

17

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