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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 mustangplay

  Familiarity information: BRONCHO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRONCHO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bronc; broncho; bronco

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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