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MANGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mange" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
Derivation:
mangey; mangy (having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap)
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