yaws

Origin uncertain.

yaws (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 16:

     Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws.

• parangi

Inflected forms.

yaws

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yaw

yaws

1. plural of yaw

• -ways, Sway, sway, ways