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walkabout disease

walkabout disease noun: synonym of Kimberley horse disease.

Noun

walkabout disease (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Kimberley horse disease.
    • ‘Then we have trouble sometimes with the stock-horses; they’re liable to die of ‘walk-about’ disease - eat some weed, and walk and walk until they die.’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 43

Synonyms of walkabout disease

Questions about walkabout disease

What does walkabout disease mean?
Walkabout disease means synonym of Kimberley horse disease.
What part of speech is walkabout disease?
Walkabout disease is a noun.

Words near walkabout disease in the dictionary

  1. walkabilities
  2. walkability
  3. walkable
  4. walkably
  5. walkabout
  6. walkabout disease
  7. walkabouts
  8. walkalator
  9. walkalators
  10. walkalong
  11. walkalongs

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