foot-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease noun: a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
Noun
foot-and-mouth disease (uncountable)
- A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
- So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 301–302
- Synonyms:
- aftosa, foot and mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi and Arabic
foot-and-mouth disease in Hindi
- foot-and-mouth disease
- मुंहपका-खुरपका रोग mũhapkā-khurapkā rog
foot-and-mouth disease in Tamil
- வாய்ப்பூட்டு நோய்
foot-and-mouth disease in Punjabi
- foot-and-mouth disease
- ਮੂੰਹ ਖੁਰ mū̃h khur
foot-and-mouth disease in Arabic
- foot-and-mouth disease
- حَمَّى قُلَاعِيَّة ḥammā qulāʕiyya
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- foot-and-mouth disease in Thai
- โรคเท้าเปื่อยปากเปื่อยของสัตว์ rôhk táo pèuay pàak pèuay kŏng sàt
- foot-and-mouth disease in Myanmar
- ခွာနာလျှာနာ hkwanahlyana, လျှာနာခွာနာ hlyanahkwana, စွတ်စွတ်နာ cwatcwatna
Synonyms of foot-and-mouth disease
Questions about foot-and-mouth disease
- What does foot-and-mouth disease mean?
- Foot-and-mouth disease means a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
- What is foot-and-mouth disease in Hindi?
- Foot-and-mouth disease in Hindi is मुंहपका-खुरपका रोग (mũhapkā-khurapkā rog). See Foot-and-mouth disease meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is foot-and-mouth disease?
- Foot-and-mouth disease is a noun.
Words near foot-and-mouth disease in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: foot-and-mouth disease (page history and authors); foot-and-mouth disease (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੂੰਹ ਖੁਰ (Punjabi) (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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