anthrax

Meaning of anthrax

noun

a serious bacterial disease of sheep and cattle, causing acute and often fatal septicaemia, and also transmissible to humans.

late Middle English: Latin, ‘carbuncle’ (the earliest sense in English), from Greek anthrax, anthrak- ‘coal, carbuncle’, with reference to the skin ulceration in humans.

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Hyphenation of anthrax

an-thrax

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • anthrax is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of anthrax

Words that rhyme with anthrax

Thrax, antianthrax, cacanthrax, glossanthrax, lithanthrax, xylanthrax

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