Dictionary Entry
anthrax
anthrax is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A carbuncle. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A carbuncle.
- 2noun
A malignant pustule.
- 3noun
A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
- 4noun
An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
- 5noun
a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia
- 6noun
a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
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