african horse sickness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.74 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A potentially fatal infection of horses and other equids caused by a virus in the genus Orbivirus, transmitted mostly by a biting midge, Culicoides imicola, and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Uncountable