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BUBO
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Irregular inflected form: buboes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Bubo; genus Bubo
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bubo" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "Bubo"):
horned owl (large owls having prominent ear tufts)
Holonyms ("Bubo" is a member of...):
family Strigidae; Strigidae (a family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bubo" is a kind of...):
lymph gland; lymph node; node (the source of lymph and lymphocytes)
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Derivation:
bubonic (of or evidencing buboes)