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epizootics

epizootics is the plural of epizootic.

Meaning of epizootic

Noun

epizootic (plural epizootics)

  1. An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
    • At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
  2. A particular epizootic disease.
    • A surgeon in the town has also informed me, that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic, and he gave them Epsom salts and opium, with, as he said, very good effect.1856, On the epizootic lately affecting lambs, in The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856, volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450
  3. (dialectal, humorous, in plural, often) A disease or ailment (of humans).
    • Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.

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Questions about epizootics

What is epizootics the plural of?
Epizootics is the plural of epizootic.

Words near epizootics in the dictionary

  1. epizoons
  2. epizootic
  3. epizootic hemorrhagic disease
  4. epizootic ulcerative syndrome
  5. epizootically
  6. epizootics
  7. epizooties
  8. epizootiologic
  9. epizootiological
  10. epizootiologically
  11. epizootiology

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