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milk sickness

Syllabification: (milk sick·ness)
Definition of milk sickness

noun

  • a condition of cattle and sheep in the western US, caused by eating white snakeroot, which contains a toxic alcohol. It sometimes occurs in humans who have eaten meat or dairy products from affected animals.

milk sickness in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of milk sickness in the British & World English dictionary