pestis bubonica
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1. 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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | pest, pestilence, pestis, plague, |
| definition | : | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | black death, black plague, |
| definition | : | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe (noun.state) |
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