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Bubo

noun
(pl. buboes)
1.
A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
2.
A genus of Strigidae.  Synonym: genus Bubo.



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"Bubo" Quotes from Famous Books



... out any time, day or night, for a rare bird. He'll just leave a note here saying he's started, and like as not the next time I hear from him he's caught a new kind of sand-piper, a god-wit or killyloo bird in a Florida swamp, or one of them glossy ibises he hankers so for. That extra pale bubo up there (pointing to a case above the office desk), he picked up ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent


Words linked to "Bubo" :   family Strigidae, lymph node, bird genus, node, symptom, horned owl, Strigidae, lymph gland


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