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BLACK DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
Synonyms:
black disease; distomatosis; liver rot; sheep rot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("black disease" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)