| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| dourine |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dou·rine |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -r n |
| NOUN: | A contagious disease of horses, asses, and mules caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma equiperdum, which is transmitted during copulation. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French , from Arabic darina, mangy (said of a female camel), feminine of darin, dirty, from darina, to be dirty. See drn in Appendix II.
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