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yellow jack n
1. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol another name for yellow fever 2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) another name for quarantine flag 3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of certain large yellowish carangid food fishes, esp Caranx bartholomaei, of warm and tropical Atlantic waters ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes--what to the doctor know of lands like that? And right then they were dying forty a day in Guayaquil of Yellow Jack. Mr Sparkler considered it a parallel case to that of some of our fellows in the West Indies with Yellow Jack. |
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