smallpox
Meaning of smallpox
noun
- An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
Information about smallpox
- It is a name.
- The plural form of smallpox is: smallpoxes.
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Hyphenation of smallpox
small-pox
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- smallpox is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
smallpox synonyms
Meaning variola:
Translation of smallpox
Words that rhyme with smallpox
rickettsialpox, Camelpox, fowlpox
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