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Poultry vs Pullorum - What's the difference?

poultry | pullorum |

As nouns the difference between poultry and pullorum

is that poultry is domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs while pullorum is a severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.

As a proper noun Poultry

is a street in the City between Cheapside and Cornhill.

poultry

English

Noun

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  • domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs)
  • the meat from a domestic fowl

    • Related terms

    * poult * poulter * poulterer

    pullorum

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 246:
    • 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.
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