foot rot

foot rot
noun
1. contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep) (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms: ↑animal disease
2. plant disease in which the stem or trunk rots at the base
• Hypernyms: ↑plant disease

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noun
1.
a. : a disease (as mal di gomma of citrus) that rots the stem or trunk of an affected plant near the ground
b. : a disease of cereals (as wheat) in which the culm blackens and decays resulting in lodging — compare take-all
2. : a progressive inflammation of the tissues in the region of the feet (as between the digits) of sheep or cattle; specifically : a necrobacillosis marked by sloughing, ulceration, suppuration, and sometimes loss of the hoof — called also foul-foot

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1. Also called fouls, stinkyfoot. Vet. Pathol. an infection of sheep, causing inflammatory changes in the area of the hoofs and lameness.
2. Plant Pathol. a stem rot at ground level; crown rot.
[1800-10; FOOT + ROT]

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foot rot noun
Ulceration of the coronary band, or any other infection of the feet in sheep or cattle
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Main Entry: ↑foot

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foot rot,
an inflammatory disease of the foot in cattle and sheep, caused by the presence of bacteria.

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n. a bacterial disease of the feet in hoofed animals, esp. sheep. ● The bacteria belong to the genera Bacteroides and Fusobacterium
■ any of a number of fungal diseases of plants in which the base of the stem rots

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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