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AFB

AFB is the initialism of air force base.

AFB is the initialism of acid-fast bacillus.

AFB is the initialism of American foulbrood.

Meaning of American foulbrood

Noun

American foulbrood (uncountable)

  1. A highly contagious and destructive disease of bees caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae.
    • Cases of American foulbrood cannot always be determined through gross symptoms in the comb.1951, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Committee Prints (issue 3, page 2563)
    Synonyms:
    AFB

Forms of AFB

pluralAFBs

Phrases with AFB

Questions about AFB

What is AFB the initialism of?
AFB is the initialism of air force base.

Words near AFB in the dictionary

  1. Afars and Issas
  2. AFAs
  3. afasevikumab
  4. afatinib
  5. AFAYK
  6. AFB
  7. AFBN
  8. AFBs
  9. AFC
  10. AFCB
  11. AFCdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: AFB (page history and authors); American foulbrood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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