Epizoötic

//ɛpɪ.zəˈwɒtɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dated spelling of epizootic. not-comparable

    "A fourth group, however, was very common — diseases transferred to humans from animal hosts, with animals acting either as intermediaries, as with malaria or typhus, or as primary or secondary epizoötic victims, as with bubonic plague."

Noun
  1. 1
    Dated spelling of epizootic.

    "Y. pestis is able to live in the dark, moist environment of rodent burrows even after the rodents have been killed by an epizoötic, or epidemic."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From epi- + zoötic.

Etymology 2

From epi- + zoötic.

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