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English
Etymology
From Latin pullorum, originally as part of a specific name Bacterium pullorum, now as the name of a serovar.
Pronunciation
Noun
pullorum (uncountable)
- (veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 246:I should recount my own experience with chooks – and I do not mean the difficulties, with lice, mites, fowl pox, pullorum or bum-drop about which subjects Goon's otherwise taciturn cousin gave me enough information to last a lifetime.
Translations
Latin
Noun
pullōrum
- genitive plural of pullus