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 Marburg in his blood had come from Charles Monet’s black vomit and perhaps originally from Kitum Cave.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The black vomit is not really black; it is a speckled liquid of two colors, black and red, a stew of tarry granules mixed with fresh red arterial blood.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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