pulmonic plague vs plague

plague vs pulmonic plague

pulmonic plague and plague both are nouns.

pulmonic plague is not a verb while plague is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pulmonic plague	Yes	No	No	No
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plague is a hypernym of pulmonic plague; that is, plague is a word with a broader meaning than pulmonic plague:

pulmonic plague: a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

Other hypernyms of pulmonic plague include pest, pestilence, pestis.

pulmonic plague (noun)	plague (noun)
a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever	an annoyance
	any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
	a swarm of insects that attack plants
	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate

pulmonic plague (verb)	plague (verb)
	annoy continually or chronically
	cause to suffer a blight

Difference between pulmonic plague and plague

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