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FRAMBOESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("framboesia" is a kind of...):
infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)