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Definition of foot-and-mouth disease noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

foot-and-mouth disease

noun

(also hoof-and-mouth disease) [uncountable]

a disease of cows, sheep, etc., which causes sore places on the mouth and feet

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