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    RABBIT FEVER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animalsplay

    Synonyms:

    deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("rabbit fever" is a kind of...):

    zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)

    Meronyms (parts of "rabbit fever"):

    chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))

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