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Tabid vs Fabid - What's the difference?

tabid | fabid |

As an adjective tabid

is (medicine) pertaining to tabes.

As a noun fabid is

(zoology) any member of the fabidae.

tabid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
  • Wasting away, declining.
  • :* 1765': by a gradual and most '''tabid decline, in a course of eighteen hundred years, they must unavoidably have shrunk, so as to have come, when he wrote, almost to nothing. — Laurence Sterne, ''The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. 7 (Penguin 2003, p. 445)

    • fabid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Fabidae.