pullorum

名词 n.
/pʊˈlɔːɹəm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium. uncountable
    — 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.

词源

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