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Rinderpest   Listen
noun
Rinderpest  n.  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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rinderpest" Quotes from Famous Books



... he presently began descanting on the ignorance of the Highland people and their need of more education. Here, again, his eloquence was interrupted by the coachman. "Education," he exclaimed. "What you call education I call the Highland rinderpest." After this the orator ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock

... with them for camels, but they had previously, in anticipation of trouble, sent their herds to distant Mongols and so could do nothing to help us. Then we betook ourselves to Dr. V. G. Gay, a veterinarian living in the town, famous throughout Mongolia for his battle against rinderpest. He lived here with his family and after being forced to give up his government work became a cattle dealer. He was a most interesting person, clever and energetic, and the one who had been appointed under the Czarist regime to purchase all the meat supplies from Mongolia for the Russian ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski



Words linked to "Rinderpest" :   animal disease



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