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6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
originFrom New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-, extended form of *dʰew- (“scatter like dust”).
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