fowl cholera

1. 1.

   an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia

   Broaderanimal diseaseblood poisoning

Questions about fowl cholera

What does fowl cholera mean?

fowl cholera means "an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia".

Is fowl cholera a common word?

fowl cholera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.