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YAWS

Dictionary entry overview: What does yaws mean?

• YAWS (noun)
The noun YAWS has 1 sense:

1. an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

Familiarity information: YAWS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• YAWS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

frambesia; framboesia; yaws

Hypernyms ("yaws" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

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