SNAIL FEVER

Meaning of SNAIL FEVER in English

schistosomiasis.

[ 1945-50; so called because the parasites that cause the disease are carried by snails ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

SNAIL FEVER — noun Etymology: from the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease Date: 1947 schistosomiasis
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SNAIL FEVER — noun : schistosomiasis
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNAIL FEVER — Etymology: from the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease Date: 1947 : schistosomiasis
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SNAIL FEVER — Function: noun Etymology: from the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease Date: 1947 : …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SNAIL FEVER — [snail fever] n [fr. the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease] (1947): schistosomiasis
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SNAIL — helice. SNAIL'S PACE: passu de helice
English interlingue dictionary
FEVER — I or pyrexia Abnormally high body temperature or a disease characterized by it. It most often occurs with infection . …
Английский словарь Британика
SNAIL — I. ˈsnāl, esp before pause or consonant -āəl noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FEVER — I. ˈfēvə(r) noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fēfer, fēfor, from Latin febris; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNAIL — (n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under …
Английский словарь Webster
SNAIL — (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of …
Английский словарь Webster
FEVER — (n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of …
Английский словарь Webster
SNAIL — ( n. ) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SNAIL — ( n. ) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SNAIL — — snaillike , adj. /snayl/ , n. 1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEVER — — feverless , adj. /fee"veuhr/ , n. 1. an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SNAIL — I. ˈsnāl noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snægl; akin to Old High German snecko snail, snahhan to creep …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FEVER — I. ˈfē-vər noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fēfer, from Latin febris Date: before 12th century 1. a. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SNAIL — noun the pod of the sanil clover. 2. snail ·noun hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing. 3. snail …
Webster English vocab
FEVER — vt to put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. 2. fever ·noun excessive excitement of …
Webster English vocab
SNAIL — [snail] n [ME, fr. OE snaegl; akin to OHG snecko snail, snahhan to creep] (bef. 12c) 1: a gastropod mollusk …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FEVER — [fe.ver] n [ME, fr. OE fefer, fr. L febris] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a rise of body temperature above the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FEVER
Britannica English vocabulary
SNAIL — snail BrE AmE sneɪ ə l ▷ snails sneɪ ə lz ▶ ˈ snail's pace BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FEVER — fever BrE AmE ˈfiːv ə AmE \ - ə r ▷ fever|ed d ▷ fever|s z ▶ ˈ fever pitch, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SNAIL — / sneɪl; NAmE / noun a small soft creature with a hard round shell on its back, that moves very …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEVER — / ˈfiːvə(r); NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] a medical condition in which a person has a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAIL — snail /sneɪl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: snægl ] 1 . a small soft creature …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FEVER — fe ‧ ver /ˈfiːvə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 900-1000 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: febris ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FEVER — n. & v. --n. 1 a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SNAIL — n. any slow-moving gastropod mollusc with a spiral shell able to enclose the whole body. snail's pace a very slow …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FEVER — n. & v. n. 1 a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SNAIL — n. any slow-moving gastropod mollusc with a spiral shell able to enclose the whole body. Phrases and idioms: snail's pace …
Oxford English vocab
FEVER — n. & v. --n. 1. a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Oxford English vocab
SNAIL — ( snails) 1. A snail is a small animal with a long, soft body, no legs, and a spiral-shaped shell. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEVER — ( fevers) 1. If you have a fever when you are ill, your body temperature is higher than usual and …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAIL — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES snail mail COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN shell ▪ Similarly, insects and land snail shells …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FEVER — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cabin fever dengue fever fever blister fever pitch (= a very excited level ) ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNAIL — [noun] [C] - a small thin animal that moves very slowly, eats plants and has a wet skin, no bones, …
Cambridge English vocab
FEVER — [noun] - a medical condition in which the body temperature is higher than usual and the heart beats very fast, …
Cambridge English vocab
FEVER — n. undulant fever Mediterranean fever Malta fever dandy fever breakbone fever typhoid fever hay fever hemorrhagic fever swine fever glandular …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FEVER — Synonyms and related words : abscess, agitation, ague, amok, anemia, animal heat, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SNAIL — n. 1. Slug. 2. Drone, idler, sluggard, laggard, slug. 3. Snail-clover, ~-trefoil ( Medicago scutellata ).
Dictionary of English Synonyms
SNAIL — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ edible ▪ aquatic , land , marine , pond , sea , water SNAIL + NOUN ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FEVER — noun 1 high temperature ADJECTIVE ▪ high , raging ▪ She had a very high ~. ▪ mild , slight …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SNAIL — • ↑ at a snail's pace
Longman Activator English vocab
FEVER — n. 25B6; noun he developed fever : FEVERISHNESS, high temperature, febrility; Medicine pyrexia; informal temperature. a fever of excitement : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SNAIL — To snail-mail something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?"
Jargon File English vocabulary
FEVER — noun BAD : I'd caught a cold and had a high fever. GOOD : I'd caught a cold and had …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SNAIL — сущ. 1) улитка - snail's pace 2) разг. а) тихоход; медлительный человек б) лежебока, лентяй Syn : sluggard 3) тех. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SNAIL — snail.ogg 1. sneıl n 1. зоол. улитка ( Gastropoda ) 2. тихоход; копун; увалень 3. тех. (плоская) спираль, улитка at …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FEVER — fever.ogg 1. ʹfi:və n 1. 1> жар, лихорадочное состояние he has a high fever - у него сильный жар /высокая …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FEVER — fever сущ.1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, to …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SNAIL — 1. sneıl n 1. зоол. улитка ( Gastropoda ) 2. тихоход; копун; увалень 3. тех. (плоская) спираль, улитка at a …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FEVER — 1. ʹfi:və n 1. 1> жар, лихорадочное состояние he has a high fever - у него сильный жар /высокая температура/ …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SNAIL — сущ. 1) улитка - snail's pace 2) разг. а) тихоход; медлительный человек б) лежебока, лентяй Syn: sluggard 3) тех. плоская …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SNAIL — сущ. 1) улитка - snail's pace 2) разг. а) тихоход; медлительный человек б) лежебока, лентяй Syn: sluggard 3) тех. плоская спираль, улитка •• at a snail's pace — черепашьим шагом
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, to develop …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
SNAIL — улитка; pl брюхоногие (моллюски) (Gastropoda) - apple snails - black snails - brown garden snail - edible snail - egg snails - finfooted snails - French snail - …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
FEVER — лихорадка - Aden fever - African tick fever - Assam fever - black fever - blackwater fever - bouquet fever - Bwamba fever - camp fever - Colorado tick …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
SNAIL — улитка; pl брюхоногие (моллюски) ( Gastropoda ) - apple snails - black snails - brown garden snail - edible snail …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
FEVER — лихорадка - Aden fever - African tick fever - Assam fever - black fever - blackwater fever - bouquet fever …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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