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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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
The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho.
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
Nobody dreamed he had ever handled a lariat, ridden a bucking broncho, or taken part in a round-up.
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
The cowboys and frontiersmen who ride are the same men who used to live on the plains and herd cattle, and the ponies they ride are the bucking bronchos of the West.
From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.
Within ten minutes of that time, a spring-board wagon, containing two young men and drawn by a pair of bronchos, suddenly appeared around one end of the dingy little depot.
From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)
Strange to say, the bronchos seemed to have charmed lives, for not one of them was hurt, and I was enabled to give a performance that day in spite of the accident.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by Coup, W. C.
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