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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paramyxovirus that causes respiratory illness and encephalitis in humans and is transmitted primarily from horses.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hendra, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, where the first known outbreak of the virus in horses and humans occurred.]
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