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vives

vives noun: a disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

Noun

vives (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
    • The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman, page 245

Origin of vives

From Old French vives, French avives (compare Spanish abivas), from Arabic ذِئْبَة (ḏiʔba, literally “she-wolf”).

Questions about vives

What does vives mean?
Vives means a disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
What part of speech is vives?
Vives is a noun.

Words near vives in the dictionary

  1. viverrids
  2. viverriform
  3. viverrine
  4. viverrines
  5. vivers
  6. vives
  7. viveur
  8. viveurs
  9. vivi-
  10. Vivian
  11. Viviane

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