vermeersiekte, noun
- Forms:
- Show more Also vermeersiek, vomeersiekte, vomeer ziekte.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, South African Dutch, DutchShow more Afrikaans, earlier South African Dutch vomeerziekte from Dutch vomeren to vomit + ziekte sickness. In Afrikaans, vermeer and vomeer are variant forms of the same word.
1. Pathology. A potentially fatal illness in livestock, especially sheep and goats, characterized by vomiting, bloating, stiffness, or paralysis, or all of these, and caused by the eating of bushes of the genus Geigeria. Also attributive.
1871 Queenstown Free Press 19 Dec.We learn..of a new disease now prevalent among sheep...The farmers call it vomeer ziekte, or vomiting disease...It is attributed by the farmers to the eating of a small kind of ‘tussock grass’ (called by them vormeer bosch) when in flower.
1979 T. Gutsche There Was a Man 18An urgent call from Victoria West to deal with the ancient ‘Vomeerziekte’ found him convalescent at the coast.
2. combinations
1929 Handbk for Farmers (Dept of Agric.) 203Many Free State and Transvaal farms are practically covered with vermeersiektebossie.
A potentially fatal illness in livestock, especially sheep and goats, characterized by vomiting, bloating, stiffness, or paralysis, or all of these, and caused by the eating of bushes of the genus Geigeria. Also attributive.
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