Meanings
glanders1
- uncountableAn infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.
1 more example
Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell): What is it? / William Crandall (Dylan Baker): It's Burkholderia mallei. Causes a disease called glanders. / Phillip Jennings (Matthew Rhys): The innoculation we got was against a kind of meningitis. / William: This is to meningitis what bubonic plague is to a runny nose.
2016, “Glanders” (45:01 from the start), in The Americans, season 4, episode 1Synonyms: leprosy
Glanders2
- pluralplural of Glander
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.
Origin
- Latinglandula
- Old Frenchglandre
- Old Frenchglandres
- Middle Englishglandres
- Englishglanders
From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula. Doublet of glandule.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic رُعَام
- رُعَام (ruʕām)disease
Bulgarian сап
- сап (sap)disease
Catalan borm
- bormdisease
Chinese Mandarin 馬鼻疽 /马鼻疽
- 馬鼻疽 /马鼻疽disease
Czech vozhřivka
- vozhřivkadisease
Finnish räkätauti
- räkätautidisease
French morve
- morvedisease
German Rotz
- Rotzdisease
Greek μάλις
- μάλις (mális)disease
Hungarian takonykór
- takonykórdisease
Irish boilg fola, fothach
- boilg foladisease
- fothachdisease
Italian morva
- morvadisease
Latin malleus
- malleusdisease
Norwegian Bokmål snive
- snivedisease
Persian مشمشه
- مشمشه (mešmeše)disease
Polish nosacizna
- nosaciznadisease
Portuguese mormo
- mormodisease
Romanian morvă
- morvădisease
Russian сап
- сап (sap)disease
Slovak sopľavka
- sopľavkadisease
Spanish muermo
- muermodisease
Swedish rots, snip
- rotsdisease
- snipdisease
Turkish sakağı, mankafa
- sakağıdisease
- mankafadisease
- ruamdisease
Ukrainian сап
- сап (sap)disease
Welsh ysgyfaint
- ysgyfaintdisease
Cite this entry
glanders. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glanders
“glanders.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glanders. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glanders,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glanders.
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