Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of horses, known chiefly in the valley of the Missouri river, due to eating the rattlebox, Crotalaria sagittalis. Also called
bottom disease , because it occurs on bottom-land.
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- noun medicine A condition caused by
poisonous plants in thegenus Crotalaria.
Etymologies
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Crotalaria + -ism
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