English Explanatory Dictionary

milk sickness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A condition, with trembling and vomiting, caused by ingestion of milk, meat, etc. from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison tremetol.

Word forms

milk sickness

Synonyms

galactopathy milksick slows trembles
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