bubo

How To Use bubo In A Sentence

• (PLAYG) A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death. Plague
• Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering.
• Young F has been reading about it in Brendan O'Brien's The Story of Ireland, and although now reassured that the danger from fleas and rats has been much reduced, and that in any case bubonic plague is treatable with modern antibiotics, he is keen to learn more. This is a long shot, but...
• Hell, I told myself, if it leaves out Bubo, the mechanical owl from the original, then it already would be ahead of the game. My Review of Clash of the Titans 2010
• Bubos is a common name for lymphogranuloma venereum. Chapter 33
• bubonic plague, a bacterial infection marked by painful, feverish, swollen lymph nodes, called buboes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• And when we shaved Oliver and painted him with Mercurochrome and took him to school and told everyone he had the bubonic plague? THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R), white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis. Sundarbans National Park, India
• Other rare birds are Fraser's eagle owl Bubo poensis, white-bellied robin chat Cossypher roberti, Grauer's warbler Graueria vittata, short-tailed warbler Hemitasia neumanni, yellow-eyed black flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiaca, montane double-collared sunbird Nectarinia ludovicenis and dusky twinspot Clytospiza cinereoinacea. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
• I had always thought that the word boo-boo originated as “bubo”—the infected, swollen lymph nodes that characterized bubonic plague. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time