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Definition of Sheep rot
1. Noun. A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheep Rot
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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