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Meaning of swamp cancer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of pythiosis.

uncountable

Examples

“"But you can't ride a horse." "I can ride old Walleye." "But he's got the swamp-cancer. He's dying, Daddy. He's nearly dead."”

“The horses—"brumbies," in Australian—stand hock-deep in water and develop swamp cancer: tumorlike, pustulant growths on their legs and bellies and noses.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

swamp chestnut oak swamp cicada swamp cooler swamp cottonwood swamp crocodile swamp crotch