Usually means: Bacterial disease affecting humans, animals.
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  1. anthrax: Merriam-Webster
  2. anthrax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anthrax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Anthrax, anthrax: Wordnik
  7. anthrax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anthrax: Wiktionary
  9. anthrax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anthrax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anthrax: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. Anthrax (American band), Anthrax (British band), Anthrax (UK band), Anthrax (band), Anthrax (disambiguation), Anthrax (fly), Anthrax, The Anthrax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anthrax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anthrax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anthrax: Rhymezone
  18. Anthrax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anthrax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. anthrax: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. anthrax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. anthrax: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anthrax: Encyclopedia

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  1. anthrax: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. Anthrax: Merck Manuals
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  11. Anthrax: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
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  15. Anthrax: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. anthrax: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
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(Note: See anthraces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
noun:  The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.

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