(medicine) Tuberculosis, especially of the lungs.

plural of plant bug

Any insect in the family Miridae

A plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, known as a very serious pest on a wide variety of crops throughout North America.

plural of tarnished plant bug

(historical) A drink made with various herbs, supposed to ward off the plague.

(historical) A plate prepared by a mechanical process, especially a photomechanical process.

In Arabic and other Semitic languages, a noun formed from a root and expressing the sense of "place of X".

A horse race after which the winning horse is auctioned off.

(photography) A plate whose film retains its sensitivity only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.