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RABBIT FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbit fever mean? 

RABBIT FEVER (noun)
  The noun RABBIT FEVER has 1 sense:

1. a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animalsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RABBIT FEVER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo

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

zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)

Meronyms (parts of "rabbit fever"):

chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))


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