Pronunciations
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/pʊˈlɔːɹəm/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.
Usage- Uncountable
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More examples (1)
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.