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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of milt (“spleen”) + vuur (“fire, inflammation, infection”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪltfyr/
- Hyphenation: milt‧vuur
Noun
miltvuur n (uncountable)
- the highly contagious disease anthrax which kills humans and animals
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