superflu
Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.
Noun
- Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.
- In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism. - 2015 July 23, Sloane Crosley, “It’s the End of the World as She Knows It”, in New...
Hypernyms: flu influenza infectious disease disease condition
Related: super flu
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English flu English superflu From super- + flu.