panzootic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely widespread outbreak of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der. Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- English zootic English panzootic From pan- + zootic.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Zoology.