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scrapies

scrapies is the plural of scrapie.

Meaning of scrapie

Noun

scrapie (countable and uncountable, plural scrapies)

  1. A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
    • This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 272

Questions about scrapies

What is scrapies the plural of?
Scrapies is the plural of scrapie.

Words near scrapies in the dictionary

  1. scrapheap
  2. scrapheaps
  3. scrapiana
  4. scrapie
  5. scrapied
  6. scrapies
  7. scrapin'
  8. scraping
  9. scraping along
  10. scraping and bowing
  11. scraping at the bottom of the barrel

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