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epizoötic

/ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/

epizoötic noun: dated spelling of epizootic.

Noun

epizoötic (plural epizoötics)

  1. Dated spelling of epizootic.
    • Y. pestis is able to live in the dark, moist environment of rodent burrows even after the rodents have been killed by an epizoötic, or epidemic.1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN

Adjective

epizoötic (not comparable)

  1. Dated spelling of epizootic.
    • A fourth group, however, was very common — diseases transferred to humans from animal hosts, with animals acting either as intermediaries, as with malaria or typhus, or as primary or secondary epizoötic victims, as with bubonic plague.1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3, →ISBN

Forms of epizoötic

pluralepizoötics

Origin of epizoötic

From epi- + zoötic.

Questions about epizoötic

What does epizoötic mean?
Epizoötic means dated spelling of epizootic.
What part of speech is epizoötic?
Epizoötic can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce epizoötic?
Epizoötic is pronounced /ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk/.
What is the plural of epizoötic?
The plural of epizoötic is epizoötics.

Words near epizoötic in the dictionary

  1. epizootize
  2. epizootological
  3. epizooty
  4. epizoön
  5. epizoöns
  6. epizoötic
  7. epizoötics
  8. epizudic
  9. EPK
  10. EPKs
  11. epkwele

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