epizootic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- epizootically adverb
Etymology
Origin of epizootic
Example Sentences
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In both the epizootic of 150 years ago and the pandemic today, he said, “you see how quickly people want things to return to normal.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023
Kheraj noted that the epizootic lasted a few weeks in one city before moving to the next.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023
It also raises concerns about epizootic shell disease, which disfigures lobsters to the point that they can’t be sold.
From Washington Times • May 13, 2018
That’s because rinderpest is an epizootic, an animal disease.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2011
Besides, a persistent research among the veterinary memorials and reports might possibly enable us to discover some instances in which the real typhoid fever in the ox had been traced, apart from the epizootic conditions.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
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