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frambesia

frambesia noun: yaws, the disease.

Noun

frambesia (uncountable)

  1. Yaws, the disease.

Origin of frambesia

Learned borrowing from New Latin frambēsia. Doublet of bramberry and framboise.

Questions about frambesia

What does frambesia mean?
Frambesia means yaws, the disease.
What part of speech is frambesia?
Frambesia is a noun.

Words near frambesia in the dictionary

  1. FRAM
  2. Frama
  3. framable
  4. Framas
  5. frambaesia
  6. frambesia
  7. frambesiform
  8. frambinone
  9. frambled
  10. framboesia
  11. framboesiform

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