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
The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag.
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
I am going to drop off this old broncho and will step right in between the old man’s plow handles and there I’ll stay until removed by death, or the County Sheriff.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
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
He had worn out two bronchos, but was in good condition himself.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Roosevelt, Wyn
Wishing to do the trick alone, Jim had taken no chauffeur; and he wasn't as expert at pumping up tyres as at breaking in bronchos.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
A moment later and the bronchos were securely tied, and, silent as ghosts, they crept up the woodland path.
From Bert Wilson at Panama by Duffield, J. W.
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