vomito
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vomito
1825–35; < Spanish vómito < Latin vomitus ( see vomitus)
Example Sentences
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The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as the vomito negro, or the black vomit.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The smell of the vomito negro fills the passenger cabin.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
It was the vomito prieto, the fever itself, embodied in the shape of a fog.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
It was high time to be off, when the yellow fever, the deadly vomito, had thus made its triumphant entry, and was ruling and ravaging like some mighty man of war in a stormed fortress.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Girard struck a light from his steel and flint, and presently they had candles lighted, and saw the yellow face, and the horrors of the vomito, in the disordered room.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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