Rinderpest : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Rinderpest	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Rinderpest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rinderpest n an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes Synonym(s): rinderpest, cattle plague
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rinderpest \Rin"derpest\ (r[icr]n"d[etil]rp[ecr]st), n. [G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague.] A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also {cattle plague}, {Russian cattle plague}, and {steppe murrain}.