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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She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho.
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
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
Kent Carson had heard of Frank’s departure on Wildfire, the bucking broncho.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
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
They were gaining so rapidly that it seemed hardly necessary to press their bronchos so hard.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
She listened intently to their tales of hair-breadth escapes, of breaking bronchos, of stampedes of cattle, of brandings and round-ups, of encounters with Indians and wolves, and of perilous feats of mountain climbing.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland
He saw them breaking in the bucking bronchos they had to ride.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
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