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    BUBONIC PLAGUE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to personplay

    Synonyms:

    bubonic plague; glandular plague; pestis bubonica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("bubonic plague" is a kind of...):

    pest; pestilence; pestis; plague (a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bubonic plague"):

    ambulant plague; ambulatory plague; pestis ambulans (a mild form of bubonic plague)

    Black Death; Black Plague (the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe)

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