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单词 milk sickness
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Definition of milk sickness in English:

milk sickness

noun
mass noun
  • A condition of cattle and sheep in the western US, caused by eating white snakeroot, which contains a toxic alcohol. It sometimes occurs in humans who have eaten meat or dairy produce from affected animals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Abraham's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died of milk sickness in 1818 and was buried on this hill.
    • Tremetol may be transmitted through the milk and butterfat to humans and other animals, causing milk sickness in them.
    • Often fatal, milk sickness was caused by a poison passed through the milk from cows grazing in woods and uncultivated land in the midwestern United States where a form of the snakeroot plant grew.
    • She was also a herbalist and healer and showed Anna a plant that we now call ‘milkweed’, which had caused the same symptoms as the milk sickness did in her own tribe.
    • There used to be entire epidemics of milk sickness where people would be fine one day and dead the next.

Definition of milk sickness in US English:

milk sickness

noun
  • A condition of cattle and sheep in the western US, caused by eating white snakeroot, which contains a toxic alcohol. It sometimes occurs in humans who have eaten meat or dairy products from affected animals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Often fatal, milk sickness was caused by a poison passed through the milk from cows grazing in woods and uncultivated land in the midwestern United States where a form of the snakeroot plant grew.
    • She was also a herbalist and healer and showed Anna a plant that we now call ‘milkweed’, which had caused the same symptoms as the milk sickness did in her own tribe.
    • Abraham's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died of milk sickness in 1818 and was buried on this hill.
    • There used to be entire epidemics of milk sickness where people would be fine one day and dead the next.
    • Tremetol may be transmitted through the milk and butterfat to humans and other animals, causing milk sickness in them.
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