swamp cancer

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swamp cancer (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of pythiosis
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎[1], 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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