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bubos

bubos is the plural of bubo.

Meaning of bubo

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

Questions about bubos

What is bubos the plural of?
Bubos is the plural of bubo.

Words near bubos in the dictionary

  1. bubonic plague
  2. bubonic plagues
  3. bubonically
  4. bubonocele
  5. bubonoceles
  6. bubos
  7. bubs
  8. bubu
  9. bubukle
  10. bubukles
  11. bubula

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