milk sickness

/mɪlk ˌsɪknɪs/
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Definitions of milk sickness
  1. noun
    disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot
    synonyms: trembles
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    type of:
    animal disease
    a disease that typically does not affect human beings
  2. noun
    caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles
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    type of:
    disease
    an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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