Synset

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
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derivationally related form

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hypernym

epidemic disease

hyponym

bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia septicemic plague