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BEF

BEF is the initialism of bovine ephemeral fever.

BEF is the initialism of British Expeditionary Force.

Meaning of bovine ephemeral fever

Noun

bovine ephemeral fever (uncountable)

  1. A viral disease of cattle, caused by species of genus Ephemerovirus, transmitted by insects.
    Synonyms:
    BEF

Forms of BEF

alternative formB.E.F.
alternative formB. E. F.

Questions about BEF

What is BEF the initialism of?
BEF is the initialism of bovine ephemeral fever.

Words near BEF in the dictionary

  1. beezers
  2. beezies
  3. Beezley
  4. Beezleys
  5. beezy
  6. BEF
  7. bef.
  8. befal
  9. befalen
  10. befaling
  11. befall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BEF (page history and authors); bovine ephemeral fever (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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