malanders

English

Alternative forms

• malenders, mallanders, mallenders

Etymology

French malandres, from Latin malandria (“blisters or pustules on the neck, especially in horses”).

Noun

malanders pl (plural only)

1. (veterinary medicine) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the foreleg of a horse or similar animal.

See also

• sallenders

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malanders”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• almanders