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anthrax (n.)
late 14c., "any severe boil or carbuncle," from Latin, from Greek
anthrax
"charcoal, live coal," also "carbuncle," of unknown origin. Specific sense of the malignant disease in sheep and cattle (and occasionally humans) is from 1876.
