Rinderpest Definition

rĭndər-pĕst
noun
An acute, infectious disease of cattle, sheep, and goats caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by fever and by hemorrhagic inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Rinderpest

  • German Rinder genitive pl. of Rind head of cattle, ox (from Middle High German rint) (from Old High German hrind ker-1 in Indo-European roots) Pest plague (from Latin pestis)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Rinderpest (“cattle plague").

    From Wiktionary

Rinderpest Sentence Examples

  • Cattle plague, or rinderpest, has not been recorded in Great Britain since 1877.

  • In 1865 the rinderpest, or steppe murrain, originating amongst the vast herds of the Russian steppes, had spread westward over Europe, until it was brought to London by foreign cattle.

  • One memorable feature was associated with 1877 in that this was the last year in which the dreaded cattle plague (rinderpest) made its appearance in England.

  • Rinderpest in1896-1897swept through South Africa, and probably carried off in Natal from 30 to 40% of the stock of Europeans, while the natives' losses were even heavier.

  • The government maintains experimental farms and forestry plantations and a veterinary department to cope with lung sickness, rinderpest, East Coast fever and such like diseases.

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