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swamp cancer

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of pythiosis.

    • "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.

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