broncho
noun
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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The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky 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
Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were few broncho teams on the prairie to compare with hers.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
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 Horace Annesley Vachell
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
Whom could Sam have sent with the bronchos for the doctor?”
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
Laughing uproariously, the cowboys forced their bronchos between Bud and the others, cutting him off and bidding him attend to his own business.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin
The corral was, as was usually the case, full of ponies of all colors and grades of disposition, from mild beasts to fiery, half-broken bronchos.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson
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