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BRONCHO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does broncho mean?
• BRONCHO (noun)
The noun BRONCHO has 1 sense:
1. an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang
Familiarity information: BRONCHO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("broncho" is a kind of...):
mustang (small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broncho"):
bucking bronco (a wild horse that is vicious and difficult or impossible to break in)
Context examples
As a result muscle relaxation (broncho- and vasodilation) occurs via cAMP-dependent signal transduction.
(Pirbuterol Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)
One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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