rinderpest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes
    cattle plague.

WordNet

Rin"der*pest noun
Etymology
G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague.
Definitions
  1. A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

Webster 1913