pullorumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pʊˈlɔːɹəm/

名詞

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, 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.