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Bubo
Bubo, in ornithology, the trivial name of a species of strix. See Strix.
Bubo, or Buboe, in surgery, a tumour which arises, with inflammation, only in certain or particular parts to which they are proper, as in the arm-pits and in the groins. See Medicine, and Surgery.