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MILK SICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milk sickness mean? 

MILK SICKNESS (noun)
  The noun MILK SICKNESS has 2 senses:

1. disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakerootplay

2. caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from tremblesplay

  Familiarity information: MILK SICKNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MILK SICKNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

milk sickness; trembles

Hypernyms ("milk sickness" is a kind of...):

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


Sense 2

Meaning:

Caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("milk sickness" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)


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