Definitions for rinderpest

rinderpest rin·der·pest

Spelling: [rin-der-pest]
IPA: /ˈrɪn dərˌpɛst/

Rinderpest is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 669 anagrams from letters in rinderpest (deeinprrst).

Definitions for rinderpest

noun

  1. an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.

Origin of rinderpest

1860-65; German, equivalent to Rinder cattle (plural of Rind) + Pest pestilence

Examples for rinderpest

rinderpest has about done for us all, and bar that the whole show has been as dry as chips.

But, unlike the English problem, rinderpest is not always with the Boer.

He does not care about anything else until the rinderpest comes.

Pleuro-pneumonia is often an epizotic, as is also the rinderpest.

Cures for infectious sheep disease or for rinderpest amongst the cattle are opposed as contravening the intentions of Providence.

Every mile now began to show the grisly, stinking signs of rinderpest.

The buffalo has recovered from the slaughter by rinderpest only in time to meet the onset of oversea sportsmen.

The rinderpest had taken firm root in the land, and was in a fair way of clearing it of horned cattle from end to end.

Just about the same time the terrible scourge of rinderpest came down upon the land.

Here were collected some two hundred waggons, stopped by loss of all their oxen from rinderpest.

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