SCRAPIE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("scrapie" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

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