swamp cancer
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Noun
- Synonym of pythiosis
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 129:
- "But you can't ride a horse."
"I can ride old Walleye."
"But he's got the swamp-cancer. He's dying, Daddy. He's nearly dead."
- 2010, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Vanishing Point”, in The Best American Series: 20 Short Stories and Essays, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 115:
- The horses—"brumbies," in Australian—stand hock-deep in water and develop swamp cancer: tumorlike, pustulant growths on their legs and bellies and noses.
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