noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Yaws, the disease. uncountable
2. 2
   an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

agueanthraxblack deathcholeradiphtheriadysentery

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin frambēsia. Doublet of bramberry and framboise.

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