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/pʊˈlɔːɹəm/ · noun
(veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium..
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.
Use pullorum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pullorum means (veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium..
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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.
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