ambulatory plague

1. 1.

   a mild form of bubonic plague

   Synonymsambulant plaguepestis ambulans

   Broaderbubonic plague

Questions about ambulatory plague

What does ambulatory plague mean?

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

What is another word for ambulatory plague?

Close synonyms include ambulant 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 ambulatory plague a common word?

ambulatory 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.