blue comb

American

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.

Etymology

Origin of blue comb

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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As she spoke, she undid the towel about her head, and she took a blue comb from her white hair: and she showed Jurgen what was engraved on the comb.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

The only species of guinea-fowl that I have seen in Africa is that with the blue comb and wattles.

From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

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