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Definition of "camelpox" []

  • A viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "camelpox" in a sentence
  • "Iraqi officials also admitted to U.N. weapons inspectors that they had conducted military research on a closely related virus called camelpox, which could have been used as a "surrogate" to develop production and dissemination techniques for smallpox virus."
  • "A given organism might be a purely agricultural threat, such as camelpox, to an overlap agent that threatens both humans and agriculture, such as Inspection"
  • "It had experimented with camelpox, a benign bug in its own right but more likely a stand-in for the much more worrisome smallpox virus."
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