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bubo

/ˈbjuː.bəʊ/US/ˈbu.boʊ/

bubo noun: an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.

bubo: an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such...
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Noun

bubo (plural bubos or buboes)

  1. An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
    • If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...1661, Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature: being the summe and substance of naturall philisophy ..., page 42

bubo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

bubo in Hindi

bubo
बद bad

bubo in Tamil

அரையாப்பு

bubo in Urdu

bubo
بد bad

bubo in Kannada

ಗಳಲೆ, ಒಡುಚು, ಒಡಿಸೆ
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bubo in Punjabi
ਸੁੰਢਾ suṇḍhā
bubo in Indonesian
bubo

Forms of bubo

pluralbubos
pluralbuboes

Origin of bubo

Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Words formed from bubo

Questions about bubo

What does bubo mean?
Bubo means an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
What is bubo in Hindi?
Bubo in Hindi is बद (bad). See Bubo meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bubo?
Bubo is a noun.
How do you pronounce bubo?
Bubo is pronounced /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of bubo?
The plural of bubo is bubos.

Words near bubo in the dictionary

  1. Bublitz
  2. Bublitzes
  3. Bubnell
  4. Bubnoff unit
  5. Bubnoff units
  6. bubo
  7. buboe
  8. buboed
  9. buboes
  10. Bubong
  11. Bubong Ilian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bubo (page history and authors); बद (Hindi) (page history and authors); bubo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بد (Urdu) (page history and authors); bubo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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