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swine flu

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine.

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  • noun Influenza caused by orthomyxoviruses, which pass from pigs to humans.

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  • noun an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. flu
  2. grippe
  3. influenza

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. bird flu

cross-references (6)

Cross-references

  1. H1N1
  2. Mexican Flu
  3. Mexican flu
  4. Mexican influenza
  5. Spanish Flu
  6. Spanish flu

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  • gangerh commented on the word swine flu

    I'm finding all this news about swine flu to be a bit of a boar.

    April 30, 2009

  • yarb commented on the word swine flu

    Pandemic? Yeah right, and pigs might fly.

    April 30, 2009

  • Prolagus commented on the word swine flu

    Follow it on Twitter.

    April 30, 2009

  • plethora commented on the word swine flu

    I called the swine flu hotline today, but the connection was really bad. All I got was crackling.

    May 2, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi commented on the word swine flu

    "Swine flew? When pigs fly!"

    May 11, 2009

  • Prolagus commented on the word swine flu

    Tips for avoiding Swine Flu (hoping chained_bear hasn't posted it somewhere else).

    May 12, 2009