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texas fever

tex·as fe·ver
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [tek-suh s fee-ver]
    • /ˈtɛk səs ˈfi vər/
    • /ˈteksəs ˈfiːvə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tek-suh s fee-ver]
    • /ˈtɛk səs ˈfi vər/

Definitions of texas fever words

  • noun texas fever babesiosis of cattle. 1
  • noun texas fever an infectious disease of cattle caused by various sporozoans (genus Babesia) that invade the red blood cells and are carried by various ticks (esp. genus Boophilus); babesiosis 0

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Origin of texas fever

First appearance:

before 1815
One of the 39% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1815-25

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Parts of speech for Texas fever

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

texas fever popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 3% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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