English
Etymology
From cow + pox.
Noun
cowpox (usually uncountable, plural cowpoxes)
- A pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an Orthopoxvirus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox.
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Translations
a skin disease
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 牛痘 (zh) (niúdòu)
- Finnish: lehmänrokko
- French: vaccine (fr) f, cowpox (fr) m
- German: Kuhpocken (de) f pl
- Irish: bolgach bó f
- Japanese: 牛痘 (ja) (ぎゅうとう, gyūtō)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xurik (ku) f, xurika çêlekan
- Persian: آبله گاوی (fa) (âbele-ye gâvi)
- Polish: krowianka (pl) f
- Portuguese: varíola bovina f, vacínia f
- Russian: коро́вья о́спа f (koróvʹja óspa), вакци́на (ru) f (vakcína)
- Spanish: viruela bovina f
- Swedish: kokoppor (sv) pl
- Welsh: brech y fuwch f, cowpog m
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