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Texas fever   /tˈɛksəs fˈivər/   Listen
Texas fever

noun
1.
An infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick.





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"Texas fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of animals ready to be dipped. This process is necessary to clean the animals from the garrapata. This is a tick which has been, and still is, the terror of the north. It is the means of transmitting to cattle the disease known as "Texas Fever." The rough native cattle do not suffer badly from this fever, but any newly imported fine stock from the south ...
— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various


Words linked to "Texas fever" :   animal disease


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