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1. n. 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 Source: wordnet
2. n 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 Source: ecdict

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accidentally animal bite bitten caused fatal flea humans infected infection rodents serious sometimes transmitted

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pestilation pestilence pestilences pestilent pestilential pestilentially pestilentious pestilently pestilentness pestillation

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