rinderpest

/rin-der-pest/US // ˈrɪn dərˌpɛst //UK // (ˈrɪndəˌpɛst) //

牛皮癣,牛瘟,牛瘟病毒,猪瘟

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Veterinary Pathology.
- : an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.

Rinderpest, or some other incomprehensible disease, affected and decimated the imported herds.
Rinderpest, rin′dėr-pest, n. a malignant and contagious disease of cattle.
Here were collected some two hundred waggons, stopped by loss of all their oxen from rinderpest.
Just about the same time the terrible scourge of rinderpest came down upon the land.
Owing to rinderpest, it seems almost impossible to get sufficient waggons in Cape Colony to bring up the required supplies.