black vomit

British  

noun

1. vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever

2. informal yellow fever

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Example Sentences

Ruth later finds herself spewing black vomit, waking up in viscous sheets, walking the streets to staccato editing, and eventually recoiling from direct sunlight.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2016

The men there slept with linens and blankets soiled with urine, black vomit and feces of recent yellow-fever victims — an environment that made some retch.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2016

The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as the vomito negro, or the black vomit.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Extreme amplification has occurred in Monet, and the sign of it is the black vomit.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In a separate tent other healthy subjects slept wrapped in blankets soiled by the black vomit of patients.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy