broncho
noun
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- a variation of bronco.
broncho
1 American
[brong-koh]
/ ˈbrɒŋ koʊ /
noun
bronchos
plural
broncho-
2
American
broncho-
British
combining form
Usage
What does broncho- mean? Broncho- is a combining form used like a prefix representing the words bronchus or bronchia. The bronchus (plural bronchi) is either of two main branches of the trachea that goes to the lung. The bronchia are smaller branches off of the bronchi. Broncho- is used in many medical terms. Broncho- comes from the Greek brónchos, meaning “windpipe,” another name for the trachea. What are variants of broncho-? When combined with words or word elements that begin with a vowel, broncho- becomes bronch-, as in bronchitis (which uses the equivalent form of bronch- in New Latin). An occasional variant of broncho- is bronchio-, as in bronchiocele.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of broncho-
from Greek: bronchus
Example Sentences
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She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Manhattan's Rodeo, Cowgirl Alice Greenough took a WOR mike along on a straightbucking broncho to describe her sensations to the radio audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was riding an Indian pony and not "grabbin� " leather when I was "going on" seven, and I have broken more than one broncho.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
The broncho pitched “fence-cornered,” but even that had no effect on the rider.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.
To see him "ride a log" was a sight to inspire admiration and respect in a Texas broncho- buster.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley
A weird but not entirely indigestible mixture of bucking bronchos and court romance, My Pal, the King is plainly intended for children.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were speaking of one of the bronchos.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Patchin, Frank Gee
Then they religiously got out their sketch books and set to work to make pictures of their three sturdy bronchos munching the buffalo grass in their neighborhood.
From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret
The horse-hunters hurled their bronchos right against the wall of fleeing animals.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Patchin, Frank Gee
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