vives
Meanings
noun
- A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
Word forms
Etymology
From Old French vives, French avives (compare Spanish abivas), from Arabic ذِئْبَة (ḏiʔba, literally “she-wolf”).
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