Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
bubonic plague in British English
noun
an acute infectious febrile disease characterized by chills, prostration, delirium, and formation of buboes: caused by the bite of a rat flea infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis
See also plague
bubonic plague in American English
a contagious disease, the most common form of plague, caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) transmitted by fleas from infected rats, and characterized by buboes, fever, prostration, and delirium
see also Black Death
Examples of 'bubonic plague' in a sentence
bubonic plague
And when we shaved Oliver and painted him with Mercurochrome and took him to school and told everyone he had the bubonic plague ?
Adair, Tom (Intro) THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES (2001)
But if there was an island somewhere teeming with rats carrying the bubonic plague, what would you do?