CATARRHAL FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catarrhal fever mean? 

• CATARRHAL FEVER (noun)
  The noun CATARRHAL FEVER has 1 sense:

1. any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract

  Familiarity information: CATARRHAL FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATARRHAL FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("catarrhal fever" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catarrhal fever"):

bluetongue (a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges)