Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pneumonic_plague

1 sense of pneumonic plague

Sense 1
pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia -- (a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever)
       => plague, pestilence, pest, pestis -- (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)