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8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
originFrom zoo- + (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) (compare also nosology); the surface analysis is almost, although not quite, zoo- + -osis; compare also anthroponosis.
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