chickenpox
Meaning of chickenpox
noun
an infectious disease causing a mild fever and a rash of itchy inflamed pimples which turn to blisters and then loose scabs. It is caused by the herpes zoster virus and mainly affects children.
early 18th century: probably so named because of its mildness, as compared to smallpox.
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- It is a name.
- The plural form of chickenpox is: chickenpoxes.
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Hyphenation of chickenpox
chick-en-pox
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- chickenpox is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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