pulmonic plague(n = noun.state) plague pneumonia, pneumonic 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;
is a kind of pest, pestilence, pestis, plague
ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, black plague, bubonic plague, cattle plague, glandular plague, plague, plague pneumonia, plague spot, pneumonic plague, pulmonic, septicemic plague, tin plague, white plague