Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

virgin soil epidemic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: vir-gin -soil epi-dem-ic
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An epidemic in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the disease and therefore have almost no immunological defence.

Etymology

Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.

Inflected Forms

virgin soil epidemics (plural)

Questions

What does virgin soil epidemic mean?: An epidemic in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the disease and therefore have almost no immunological defence.
Where does virgin soil epidemic come from?: Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.

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