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foulbrood

foulbrood noun: a bacterial disease of bees.

Noun

foulbrood (usually uncountable, plural foulbroods)

  1. (usually) A bacterial disease of bees.
    • There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times
    • At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553

Forms of foulbrood

pluralfoulbroods

Origin of foulbrood

From foul + brood.

Words formed from foulbrood

Questions about foulbrood

What does foulbrood mean?
Foulbrood means a bacterial disease of bees.
What part of speech is foulbrood?
Foulbrood is a noun.
What is the plural of foulbrood?
The plural of foulbrood is foulbroods.

Words near foulbrood in the dictionary

  1. Foulahs
  2. foulant
  3. foulants
  4. foulard
  5. foulards
  6. foulbrood
  7. foulbroods
  8. Foulby
  9. foulder
  10. fouldered
  11. fouldering

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