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sallenders

sallenders noun: an eruption on the hind leg of a horse.

Noun

sallenders pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
    • there is occasionally a surfy eruption, called mallenders in the fore-leg, and sallenders in the hindleg1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

Forms of sallenders

alternative formsellanders
alternative formsellenders

Origin of sallenders

From French solandres.

Questions about sallenders

What does sallenders mean?
Sallenders means an eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
What part of speech is sallenders?
Sallenders is a noun.

Words near sallenders in the dictionary

  1. Sallee-men
  2. sallees
  3. sallekhana
  4. sallempore
  5. sallempores
  6. sallenders
  7. salles
  8. salles d'armes
  9. Salles-de-Villefagnan
  10. Salleses
  11. sallet

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