ambulant plague

1. 1.

   a mild form of bubonic plague

   Synonymsambulatory plaguepestis ambulans

   Broaderbubonic plague

Questions about ambulant plague

What does ambulant plague mean?

ambulant plague means "a mild form of bubonic plague".

What is another word for ambulant plague?

Close synonyms include ambulatory plague, pestis ambulans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambulant plague a common word?

ambulant plague is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.