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SHIPPING FEVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping fever mean?
• SHIPPING FEVER (noun)
The noun SHIPPING FEVER has 1 sense:
1. a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
Familiarity information: SHIPPING FEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
shipping fever; shipping pneumonia
Hypernyms ("shipping fever" is a kind of...):
blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
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