Definition of Sheep rot

1. Noun. A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products.

Exact synonyms: Black Disease, Distomatosis, Liver Rot
Generic synonyms: Animal Disease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheep Rot

sheep botfly
sheep bots
sheep dip
sheep diseases
sheep dog
sheep fescue
sheep frog
sheep gadfly
sheep ked
sheep laurel
sheep louse
sheep pen
sheep plant
sheep polyphore
sheep polypore
sheep rot (current term)
sheep shagger
sheep shaggers
sheep sorrel
sheep tick
sheepback
sheepbacks
sheepberries
sheepberry
sheepbiter
sheepbiters
sheepcot
sheepcote
sheepcotes
sheepcots

Literary usage of Sheep rot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Sheep-rot. From a supposition that it causes the liver-rot in sheep, which disease is often prevalent on wet land where the plant grows. ..."

2. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"Should sheep-rot ultimately follow, the prospect is extremely bad. The principal and most favourable thing ш prevention of sheep-rot is the universal ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1881)
"... occasioning the disease commonly called tbe sheep-rot, and baa forwarded to tbe department a very fine specimen of the parasite, mounted for use in a ..."

4. British Farmer's Magazine (1865)
"There arc, however, many other examples whose historical and physiological details are not so well understood even as sheep-rot ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"The Council have had under their consideration the very serious outbreak of Sheep-rot which caused so much mortality amongst the flocks of the country ..."

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