Glanders

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Glanders

Type

free base

Denotation

infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys; literally little acorn

Etymology

Middle English glandres, glaundres; Old French glandres, from glandre; Latin glandulae, from glandula, from glandis, from glāns

Evidence

glanders, pseudoglanders

Notes

glanders and glandule are doublets

See Also

Gland, -(u)le [-ule, -le], -ulae