Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep;
involves high fever and pneumonia;
contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market);
[syn: shipping fever, shipping pneumonia]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shipping fever
n 1: a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves
high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of
exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals
are shipped to market) [syn: shipping fever, shipping
pneumonia]