| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| frambesia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fram·be·sia |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr m-b  zh , -zh- |
| NOUN: | See yaws. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin, from French framboise, raspberry (from the appearance of the excrescence), from Old French, of Germanic origin. See bh -1 in Appendix I.
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