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Webster 1913 Edition
Epizootic
Epˊi-zo-öt′ic
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
épizoötique
.] 1.
(Zoöl.)
Of or pertaining to an epizoön.
2.
(Geol.)
Containing fossil remains; – said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like.
[Obs.]
Epizoötic
mountains are of secondary formation. Kirwan.
3.
Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; – corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.
{
, Epˊi-zo-öt′ic
,Epˊi-zo′ö-ty
}Noun.
[F.
épizoötie
.] 1.
A contagious disease which attacks many animals at the same time; an epizootic disease; an epidemic among animals.
2.
A murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
Webster 1828 Edition
Epizootic
EPIZOOT'IC
,Adj.
Epizootic mountains are of secondary formation.
Definition 2025
epizoötic
epizoötic
See also: epizootic
English
Noun
epizoötic (plural epizoötics)
- Alternative spelling of epizootic
- 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (1985 Free Press paperback edition; ISBN 0029123704, 9780029123706), page 7
- 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.
- 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (1985 Free Press paperback edition; ISBN 0029123704, 9780029123706), page 7
Adjective
epizoötic (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of epizootic
- 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (1985 Free Press paperback edition; ISBN 0029123704, 9780029123706), page 3
- 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.
- 1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (1985 Free Press paperback edition; ISBN 0029123704, 9780029123706), page 3