Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Dark vomit consisting of digested blood and gastric contents.
- n. Severe yellow fever with symptomatic regurgitation of dark vomited matter.
Wiktionary
- n. A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds and due to hæmorrhage, vomited in severer cases of yellow fever; also, the disease of yellow fever itself.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
- n. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
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black phrases/words
Tolkien worked in the black section
of the dictionary at one point in his lifeblack-about, Black Act, black afraid, black Africa, black African, black amber, Black America, Black American, black and blae, black and blue, black angry, black ant and 578 more...
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Eeeew!
Things encountered on wordie that make me say Eeeew!.
colopexy, wet gripes, black vomit, hircus, gavage, casu marzu, wet bread, meatus, oyster, heart attack, bristol stool scale, weasand and 8 more...
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hernesheir Not to be confused with the holly species Ilex vomitoria, the source of a brewed infusion used by native Americans in its range, for purification and unity rituals, called by exploring Europeans the black drink. Vomiting, referring to to the species epithet vomitoria), may have been observed in drinkers who reacted to the high caffeine content of the drink, or to the actual volume of the drink taken. Jan 11, 2009
trivet Oh - no worries, c_b. Tropical diseases are just so extreme. All those fevers and worms that crawl around under your skin... *shudder* Mar 19, 2008
chained_bear I'm sorry, trivet. I defined it because I forgot to when I listed it, and it deserved a definition. I think it refers to the very last stages of the fever. Mar 19, 2008
trivet Eeeew. Mar 19, 2008
chained_bear Another name for yellow fever; usage on yellow jack. Mar 19, 2008