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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A contagious, often fatal diarrheal disease of young poultry, caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum and usually transmitted by infected hens through their eggs.
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- noun a serious bacterial disease of young chickens
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin pullōrum, specific epithet, from genitive pl. of Latin pullus, young fowl; see pullet.]
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