Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun swine_flu

1 sense of swine flu

Sense 1
swine influenza, swine flu -- (an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic)
       => influenza, flu, grippe -- (an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease)