pullorum disease

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   a serious bacterial disease of young chickens

   Synonymsbacillary white diarrheabacillary white diarrhoea

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about pullorum disease

What does pullorum disease mean?

pullorum disease means "a serious bacterial disease of young chickens".

What is another word for pullorum disease?

Close synonyms include bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pullorum disease a common word?

pullorum disease 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.