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GLANDERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glanders mean?
• GLANDERS (noun)
The noun GLANDERS has 1 sense:
1. a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans
Familiarity information: GLANDERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("glanders" is a kind of...):
zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)
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