GLANDERS


Meaning of GLANDERS in English

n.pl. (also treated as sing.)

1. a contagious disease of horses, caused by a bacterium and characterized by swellings below the jaw and mucous discharge from the nostrils.

2 this disease in humans or other animals.

Derivatives:

glandered adj. glanderous adj.

Etymology: OF glandre: see GLAND(1)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.