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Meaning of pullorum | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/pʊˈlɔːɹəm/

Definitions

A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.

uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi valkovatsuri

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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