pullus

American  

[puhl-uhs] / ˈpʌl əs /

noun

pulli plural

1. a young bird; a chick.

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pullus British  

/ ˈpʊləs /

noun

1. a technical term for a chick or young bird

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pulli
  plural

Etymology

Origin of pullus

First recorded in 1765–75; from New Latin, Latin: “a young animal”; see origin at pullet

Example Sentences

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pullus pulli

The mid-ventral white stripe characteristic of pullus is present in three of 28 adults from El Salvador.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

This shell is somewhat like P. pullus, Turbo pullus of Montague, but the whorls are more convex, and it is rather differently marked.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker

Comparisons.—For comparisons with B. m. handleyi, B. m. grisescens, B. m. musculus, B. m. pallidus, and B. m. pullus, see accounts of those subspecies.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

In color of the dorsum, specimens from these localities are intermediate between nigrescens and pullus.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

The subspecies closest, geographically, to B. m. handleyi is B. m. nigrescens, from which B. m. handleyi differs more in color than from any of the other named subspecies, except B. m. pullus.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

They acknowledge a Supreme Being, the creator of all things, whom they name Pillan, a word derived from pulli or pilli, the soul.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert