Pestis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pestis is a noun meaning (uncommon) Plague.
Meaning
(uncommon) Plague.
Example Sentences
page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis. page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bacillus, pest, pestilence, pize, murrain, qualm.
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