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Definition of Parvo
1. Noun. Any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease.
Definition of Parvo
1. Noun. (informal) Parvovirus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parvo
1. a contagious disease of dogs [n -VOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parvo
Literary usage of Parvo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
"What Is parvo? With a heavy heart and a guilty feeling, I took Mandy to the ...
I assumed that Mandy wouldn't get parvo since all of our neighbors' dogs had ..."
2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... Huguenin—"From dawn to eve I fell"—The mul- tum - in - parvo machine — "Beauty
and the Beast"— Frank Channing—"Blood—and water!"—A lapful of Irish stew. ..."