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anthrax

noun pl. anthraces

  1. an infectious hemorrhagic disease of wild and domesticated animals, esp. cattle and sheep, which is caused by a bacillus (Bacillus anthracis) and can be transmitted to people: it is characterized by black pustules
  2. any such pustule
  3. blackleg (sense )

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