Noun: pellagra
| Singular | pellagra |
| Plural | pellagras |
Sample Sentences
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In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain. [1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531:]
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Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread. [2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like pellagra
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian pellagra, from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “seizure, attack, catching”). See: Italian Nouns '
pellagra', Latin Nouns '
pellis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄγρα'.
Verbs referencing "pellagra"
Irish Nouns
peallagra.