foot and mouth disease

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ˌfoot and ˈmouth disˌease noun [uncountable]  TAMIa serious disease that kills cows and sheep 口蹄疫〔一种导致牛、羊死亡的严重疾病〕

Examples from the Corpus

foot and mouth disease• If they have foot and mouth disease, then they would need another month or two months.• The number of cases of foot and mouth disease in Britain is soaring.• As if the countryside were not paranoid enough, along comes the spectre of foot and mouth disease.• I suspected that some one was shooting deer, which are feared to transmit foot and mouth disease.• Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.• It lies at the centre of a viral hot zone, surrounded by farms infected with foot and mouth disease.

ˌfoot and ˈmouth disˌease nounChineseSyllable  

that disease cows and Corpus kills a serious

foot and mouth disease
ˌfoot and ˈmouth disˌease noun [uncountable]
a serious disease that kills cows and sheep