Definitions for "Rinderpest"
A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Acute infectious cattle disease. Rrelated to the virus that causes measles in humans. (German, from Rinder, plural of cattle + pest, pestilence) 1865
an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes