pullorum

English

Etymology

From Latin pullorum, originally as part of a specific name Bacterium pullorum, now as the name of a serovar.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /pʊˈlɔːɹəm/

Noun

pullorum (uncountable)

  1. (veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium. [from 20th c.]
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 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.

Latin

Noun

pullōrum

  1. genitive plural of pullus
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