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green-sickness

green-sickness is the alternative form of green sickness.

Meaning of green sickness

Noun

green sickness (uncountable)

  1. A disease characterized by a greenish tint to the skin; chlorosis.
    • She died of cirrhosis, brain fever, consumption and green sickness before she reached twenty.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 35
  2. The abnormal appetite associated with such a disease; pica.

Questions about green-sickness

What is green-sickness the alternative form of?
Green-sickness is the alternative form of green sickness.

Words near green-sickness in the dictionary

  1. green-shave
  2. green-shaved
  3. green-shaves
  4. green-shaving
  5. green-shavings
  6. green-sickness
  7. green-sicknessed
  8. green-soil
  9. green-soiled
  10. green-soiling
  11. green-soils

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