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BLACK PLAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
Synonyms:
Black Death; Black Plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Black Plague" is a kind of...):
bubonic plague; glandular plague; pestis bubonica (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 person)
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