swine fever


noun Veterinary Pathology.

Origin of swine fever

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example sentences from the Web for swine fever

  • We are having a grand lambing season, but there's a nasty spread of swine-fever, and the whole country's papered with handbills.

    My Friend Prospero |Henry Harland

British Dictionary definitions for swine fever

swine fever

noun

an infectious viral disease of pigs, characterized by fever, refusal to eat, weight loss, and diarrhoea US term: hog cholera