swine influenza
Swine fluSwine flu
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Swine flu
More definitions
- 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
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- 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:swine flu
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
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