SPOTTED FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spotted fever mean? 

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

1. any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOTTED FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)

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

mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; tick fever (caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks)

 Context examples 

It is most like a plucked pullet which has died of the spotted fever.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)